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Review: ‘Apollo’ is Great with Facts, Less Great with Mythologizing

Jason Sacks
June 25, 2018
Books, Reviews
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

Jason Sacks
November 29, 2017
Books
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

Daniel Elkin, Jason Sacks
July 26, 2017
Small Press, Tiny Pages Made of Ashes
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

Daniel Elkin, Jason Sacks
February 27, 2017
Reviews, Small Press
“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

Daniel Elkin
November 25, 2016
Small Press, Tiny Pages Made of Ashes
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

Jason Sacks
April 27, 2016
Books
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

Jason Sacks
August 26, 2015
Reviews, Small Press
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’

Daniel Elkin, Jason Sacks
May 28, 2015
Reviews
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

Ray Sonne
March 18, 2015
Reviews
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...
5.0

Review: ‘Aama: the Invisible Throng’ is Visionary Science Fiction

Jason Sacks
December 10, 2014
Reviews
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

Jason Sacks
December 9, 2014
Reviews
"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...
3.0

Review: ‘Ricky Rouse Has A Gun’: Weird In A Good Way

John Yohe
October 27, 2014
Reviews
  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...
4.0

Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Has Amazing Art but a Giant, Crucial Problem

Jason Sacks
October 23, 2014
Reviews
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...
5.0

‘The Boxer’ is One of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year

Jason Sacks
June 9, 2014
Reviews
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...
4.5

Review: ‘Weapons of Mass Diplomacy’: Down and Dirty with Diplomacy

John Yohe
May 30, 2014
Reviews
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy is a fictionalized graphic novel memoir from the point of view of two French diplomats, concerning the political...
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