4.5
Review: SONG OF AGLAIA is a Showcase for Emotions
Fantagraphics Books (w/a) Anne Simon Humans are complicated. That’s the truth. Every single person on this planet experiences emotions,...
4.5
DUMB: LIVING WITHOUT A VOICE Reminds Us Of Life’s Fragility
Fantagraphics Books (w/a) Georgia Webber People are funny. Not in a "ha ha, that's hilarious" manner (though that can also be true), but...
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 8/12/16: Parsing the Time Clock
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comic Bulletin’s small press review column. Time Clock By Leslie Stein Published by Fantagraphics...
Review: Jeremy Baum’s ‘Dörfler’ is Otherworldly and Magnificent
Jeremy Baum’s comics imply other worlds. They imply secret worlds inside our heads and secret worlds inside our hearts. They imply totalitarian...
0.0
Drama Bomb Imports!: Megahex
For nearly 4 decades Fantagraphics Books has done us all a great service by bringing many talented artists and writers out of the underground...
140 Character Reviews 6/10/15
1602 WITCH HUNTER ANGELA #1 (Marvel Comics) 1602 - Witch Hunter Angela #1 was wonderful. Amazing art. Great story telling. I love these "what...
Review: ‘Michael Jordan: Bull on Parade’
(Wilfred Santiago; Fantagraphics Books) When I was dominating potty training and getting the hang of motor skills, Michael Jordan was dominating...
Classic Comics Cavalcade: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Trail of the Unicorn (The Carl Barks Library Volume Eight)
Carl Barks – who from 1943 to 1966 labored in obscurity as the unacknowledged author and artist of some 500 Disney stories, comprising more than...
3.5
Review: Peter Bagge’s ‘Sweatshop’ is a Fun Lost Sitcom
In this era of pervasive Netflix and Hulu, even the most short-lived TV series never completely go away. Short-run shows seem to live on forever and...
Team-Up Review: ‘Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen’ is a Frustrating Disappointment
Jason Sacks: Gentlemen, I sometimes think the greatest force we fight inside ourselves isn't ambition or frustration or narcissism. The greatest...
Classic Comics Cavalcade: ‘Inner City Romance’ Resurrects a Brilliant, Earthy Comics Classic
Sometimes great comics get lost to history for all the wrong reasons. They're almost too unique to be remembered well, not conforming with the...
The Obligations of Brutality: Thoughts on Noah Van Sciver’s ‘Saint Cole’
“I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power;...
Basil Wolverton and “Creeping Death from Neptune”
It's an odd thing, to learn all about your favorite creators. Sometimes they delight a reader, by discovering that they're as gracious, kind and...
5.0
Review: ‘Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell’ Takes Jason’s Breath Away
I like my crime novels like I like my coffee: very dark and very bitter. I loved Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell by Jacques Tardi, adapted from a...
Classic Comics Cavalcade: ‘Barnaby’ Volume 2 is Magical
Cushlamochree! Barnaby is magic. Well, actually Barnaby's Fairy Godfather Mr. O'Malley is the magical one, not young Barnaby, but the stories...