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Author: Gary Usher

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RoboWolf #1 – Jake Smith’s Dayglo Retro Crime Comedy from Dark Horse Comics Sells His Zany Vision

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 22, 2025

Jake Smith, a creator based out of Kansas City Missouri, is known for previous Dark Horse titles Blood Force Trauma and Into Radness. His most recent work was IDW’s Godzilla:…

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Done with Demons – Meet Dora Grents’ Odd Couple in Hell in this Infernal Comedy

  • by Gary Usher
  • May 9, 2025

Dora Grents is an animator living in Denmark. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Storytelling from VIA University College, Denmark. According to her website, Done With Demons was her…

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Many Opinions and Errors – The Newest Minicomic From Brooklyn, NY Cartoonist Steven Solomon 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 29, 2025

Steven Solomon has exhibited paintings, collages, animation, and large single page comics internationally and domestically, but in recent years has been exploring the possibilities of sequential narratives through an ever…

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Single Camera Sitcom – Katie Lane’s Ambitious Collage Graphic Novel Collected by Comics Blogger Books 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 18, 2025

Katie Lane has been a comics artist, writer, editor and critic in her long career. Single Camera Sitcom first appeared online on Webtoons and Instagram around 2019, and was subsequently…

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Not Red Deeps! – A New Entry in the UK’s Long-Running ‘Life’s A Party’ Autobiography Series from Sean Azzopardi 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 8, 2025

On his site, Sean Azzopardi describes ‘Life’s A Party’ as “15 years, 600+ pages, one autobiographical series.” Previously, BF’s Andy Oliver has reviewed two entries in this series Once There…

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Baby Blue – Bim Eriksson’s Dystopian Graphic Novel, the Swedish Underground in Translation from Fantagraphics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • April 4, 2025

There is a burgeoning alternative comics scene in Sweden that Fantagraphics Books and translator Melissa Bowers have been bringing to English-speaking audiences over the last seven years. It includes Erik…

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Past Time #1 – Russell Mark Olson Brings to Life New Joe Harris Horror Title From Mad Cave Studios 

  • by Gary Usher
  • March 25, 2025

Readers may be familiar with artist Russell Mark Olson from his ongoing Gateway City  stories serialized online and collected in five volumes. His Prohibition-era gangsters and aliens epic definitely prepared…

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La Poderosa #1: Come With Me –  Expatriate Autobiography From Powerpaola, New Continuing Series From 2dcloud 

  • by Gary Usher
  • March 18, 2025

Serial comics on the alternative side of the comics world are, sadly, rare these days. So it’s with great delight we welcome a (promised) ongoing series in La Poderosa from…

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Crease – Editor Austin English Pairs Classic Transgressive Authors with Alternative Cartoonists in this Domino Books Anthology 

  • by Gary Usher
  • March 11, 2025

Editor, publisher, distributor, educator, creator Austin English flies solo on the anthology Crease, after collaborating with Floyd Tangeman on the recent Domino Books Jaywalk anthology series. Where Jaywalk was artist-oriented…

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Laneha House #14 – The Latest Anthology of Experimental Strips from Laneha House Publishers Breena Nuñez and Lawrence Lindell 

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 27, 2025

Married Bay Area cartoonists Breena Nuñez and Lawrence Lindell recently released the latest installment of their two-person anthology Laneha House, which also happens to be the name of their publishing…

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Fizzle #4 and #5 – Catching Up With Whit Taylor’s Slice-of-Life Classic from Radiator Comics 

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 21, 2025

Andy Oliver reviewed Fizzle #1-3 on this site in the halcyon pre-pandemic days. Today we revisit the long-running Whit Taylor series with its latest issue being published earlier this year…

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Bring Me the Head of Susan Lomond – Connor B.’s Debut Graphic Novel from Silver Sprocket Delivers High School Hijinks of a Mad Scientist

  • by Gary Usher
  • February 13, 2025

Conor B. is an artist/writer who has self-published more than half a dozen mini-comics and is currently touring the West coast of the U.S. in support of their debut graphic…

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