Review: ‘Apollo’ is Great with Facts, Less Great with Mythologizing
My parents used to talk all the time about the moon landing, in the same hushed tones they used to talk about the deaths of John F. Kennedy and of my...
‘The Smell of Starving Boys’ is a Brilliant, Haunting Western
The Smell of Starving Boys, the new graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Loo Hui Phang, is the best graphic novel I’ve read all year. The book...
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 5/26/17: JOSEPHINE BAKER by Catel and Bocquet
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comics Bulletin's Small Press Review Column This week, Publisher Emeritus Jason Sacks joins Small Press Editor...
Playing the Wild Mutation: A review of HADDON HALL: WHEN DAVID INVENTED BOWIE by Néjib
“It’s easy, David: don’t try to be a star. BE A STAR!” Elkin: Legend has it that early in his career, after struggling on the outskirts of...
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes 11/25/2016: A “Shopping List” For A (truly) Black Friday
Tiny Pages Made of Ashes is Comic Bulletin’s Small Press Review Column. Now that nazis are being complimented for their taste in men’s...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ and the Beauty of Third Acts
Most of us are conditioned to think that our insignificant, small lives don’t matter, that our prosaic existences don’t make much difference to...
Review: Peter Kuper’s ‘Ruins’ is a Great Work of Comics Art
Peter Kuper is a name that’s not well known to most comic readers. That’s a real shame because Kuper’s been doing exemplary comics work since...
Team-Up Review: ‘The Motherless Oven’
Jason Sacks: Elkin, you teach high school so you know this better than me, but the teen years are often a fucked up time. Life is incredibly...
Review: Pride and Prejudice Loses Luster in OGN Form
The 19th century marks the beginning of a great many things, but among them is the advent of print culture. Like how digital is the hot, new medium...
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Review: ‘Aama: the Invisible Throng’ is Visionary Science Fiction
Aama: the Invisible Throng is a mindfuck. It's a journey both literally and metaphorically. It's astonishing science fiction that takes readers to a...
4.0
Review: ‘The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath’ is a Masterful Lovecraft Adaptation
"You have to ask yourself, am I a part of your dream or are you part of mine?" The latest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from I.N.J. Culbard and...
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Review: ‘Ricky Rouse Has A Gun’: Weird In A Good Way
Ricky Rouse Has a Gun is weird. But in a good way. It has a couple of ‘asks’ of readers, though, that may not be considered, at least...
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Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Has Amazing Art but a Giant, Crucial Problem
Best of Enemies is a beautifully-illustrated story about an area of our world that brings nothing but bad news. Subtitled "A History of US and...
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‘The Boxer’ is One of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year
The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist is an exceptional graphic novel. It is the true story of Harry Haft, a Jewish boy from Poland who is forced to leave his...
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Review: ‘Weapons of Mass Diplomacy’: Down and Dirty with Diplomacy
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy is a fictionalized graphic novel memoir from the point of view of two French diplomats, concerning the political...