In a sharp change of direction from his usual insights into troubled youth, acclaimed cartoonist and publisher Charles Forsman joins the nostalgic trend for low-brow exploitation comics. I’m sure someone much…
Bastard and Nu, two accessible and enjoyable European mini-comic series by Max de Radigués and Sacha Goerg, make their English-language debut courtesy of Oily Comics. This Summer’s bundle of goodies from…
Noah Van Sciver delivers an intense and claustrophobic portrait of a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Oily Comics (the mini-comics vehicle of cartoonist Charles Forsman) may have changed its publishing model of…
Originally published via his minicomics imprint Oily Comics, Charles Forsman’s The End of the Fucking World was recently collected by Fantagraphics Books. Now, for a committed champion of SP books…
Melissa Mendes’s Lou follows the adventures of the titular 9-year-old tomboy, her two brothers – the younger John and older Eddie, and an extended cast of friends and family. Published by…
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