In February 2026, a major study of adolescent bullying in the United Kingdom revealed the scale of challenges for health and education systems in that country. It surveyed over 8,400…
Sometime towards the end of 1969, an American musical group called The 5th Dimension recorded the opening of the Declaration of Independence for a song they performed on national television….
One of the many things that make comic books great is how they can be used to explore existential questions. This may be because visual metaphors are always great for…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! A little over a decade ago, the American Canadian historian Rachel Hope Cleves published a book titled Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. It…
PRIDE MONTH 2026! One of the hardest things to capture, in prose or visual art, is that heady feeling of falling in love with someone. This isn’t simply because that…
To read about loss is always hard, given how someone else’s pain inadvertently resonates with one’s own. What’s harder is coming to terms with loss that makes no sense, because…
There are some pages in this powerful tale that are hard to explain because they don’t appear to fit in with the larger narrative. There are images of feet, and…
Lee Daye, the protagonist of South Korean artist Choi Sungmin’s Narrow Rooms, is a young woman preparing for her annual art exam. Far from home and alone in the big…
The story that gives this collection its title is also a succinct introduction to what anyone unfamiliar with Michael DeForge can expect. The title of All the Cameras in My…
One of the most interesting things a fan of any artist can do is invest time and energy in following the evolution of said artist. When this is done long…
Sometime in 1983, Americans were treated to a television series about a superhero called Manimal. It featured a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal he chose, and…
There’s something oddly amusing about two adult men sitting around and talking about nothing in particular. What they say tends to make perfect sense to them, but not necessarily to…
‘The Birth of Venus’, painted by Sandro Botticelli in the 1480s, is often cited as a blatant example of the ‘male gaze’ that has long dominated art in the West….
An interesting assessment of Joe Ollmann’s work appears early on in his own introduction to this latest collection. It comes from the late American critic Tom Spurgeon who once reportedly…
It’s hard to try and paraphrase how colourful (a term that doesn’t do justice) the lives of the Mitford sisters were. Daughters of British aristocrats David Freeman-Mitford and Sydney Bowles,…
A decade or so ago, while speaking about her plan for The Weight, which had yet to be completed, American artist Melissa Mendes spoke of her love of family sagas that spanned generations….
A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…
There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…
“Human Identity is a Very Complex Thing” – Yudori on ‘Lovers of the Empire’, Period Piece Comics, and the Importance of EscapismAugust 31, 2026
“There’s Nothing More Tedious than a Predictable Protagonist” – Roberta Gregory On Revisiting the Life of Her Classic Character in ‘Bitchy! The Exasperating Existence of Midge McCracken’August 31, 2026
“Shedding Light on the Absence of Queer Narrative is Like Laying Flowers for the Ghosts of Queer Souls” – Marina Lisa Komiya on the Themes of ‘On Their Frontlines: The Lives of Japanese War Brides’August 31, 2026
“I Like to Try to Write from a Place of Power” – Katie Skelly on Her New Graphic Novel ‘Heaven’, the Camaraderie Between Working Women, and Taking Readers on a Narrative RideAugust 27, 2026
“Comics, Similar to Zines, Exist as a Proletariat Art Form Within Popular Consciousness” – Raquelle Jac on Her Powerful Debut Graphic Memoir ‘Bimbo Agitprop’ from FantagraphicsAugust 13, 2026
