At the Shore – Tracing the Evolution of Jim Campbell’s Coastal Zombie Horror Comedy
Jim Campbell’s At the Shore is a graphic novel that highlights the changing tides in indie comics from the early part of the 2000s to the present. Much of that…
Author: Robin Enrico
Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair – Performance and Collaboration Are the Key Ingredients at a Truly Unique New York Small Press Experience
Last weekend attendees of Funhouse: An Interactive Bookfair were able to experience a comics festival unlike any other. The past few years have given rise to a host of new…
Bobbins – A Retrospective Look at the Webcomics Universe of John Allison
John Allison’s work with in the Scary Go Round universe has been a long-standing high water mark of quality webcomics. Particularly after his shift in the late 2000s to a…
Lemon – Life’s Sour Moments Examined in Kelsey Wroten’s Comics Short
Lemon by Kelsey Wroten is a brief but potent distillation of her abilities as both a cartoonist and a writer. This minicomic from 2016 displays a strong talent for rendering…
Too Dark to See – The Otherworldly and the Domestic Converge in Julia Gfrörer’s Dark Minicomic
Julia Gfrörer’s Too Dark to See is a brief supernatural story that poses questions about our cosmic insignificance. In the face of creatures beyond our understanding what are the lives…
Someone Please Have Sex with Me – Gina Wynbrandt Negotiates the Complex Space Between Reality and Fantasy in Her 2dcloud Flights of Fancy
Gina Wynbrandt’s collection of magical realist autobiographical comics Someone Please Have Sex with Me from 2dcloud is a unique take on the genre. While the protagonist of her stories is always…
Black & White Diary Comics (December – February 2017) – Examining the Potent Immediacy of Sara Lautman’s Autobio Work
Sara Lautman has firmly secured her place as a cartoonist and illustrator with her professional work for The New Yorker. While Lautman is highly competent at the single panel gag…
By Monday I’ll Be Floating in the Hudson with the Other Garbage – 2dcloud Present the Candid Diary Comics of Laura Lannes
The task of the memoirist is much like that of any documentarian; sorting through millions of moments to edit and frame them for the audience. Laura Lannes’ By Monday I’ll…
Ink Toby – A.T. Pratt’s Inktober-Themed Commentary on the Artist’s Vocation in a Social Media World
Ink Toby by A.T. Pratt is a rare thing in the world of indie comics, simultaneously a take down of the scene’s at times Pollyanna-ish culture yet one so steeped…
In the Future, We Are Dead – Eva Müller’s Ruminations on Mortality from Birdcage Bottom Books
In the Future, We Are Dead by Eva Müller is a collection of nine short comics thematically linked in their exploration of mortality. Some stories focusing on a young Müller coming…
On the Inside – Creeping Corruption and Body Horror Abound in Ashley Robin Franklin’s Haunting Halloween Tale
It is always interesting to see a cartoonist step outside their artistic wheelhouse and try something new. What is somewhat unique within indie comics is that this new thing can…
Wuvable Oaf V – Ed Luce’s Unique Queer Take on the Romantic Comedy Holds an Important Place in Indie Comics
What sustains an artist’s creativity on a series they have been working on for years? When you take a more aesthetic look at the current issue of Ed Luce’s Wuvable…
Dad’s Weekend – Dysfunctional Families and Conspiracy Theories Collide in Pete Toms’ Unsettling Minicomic Tale
The typical conspiracy theory is anchored in the idea that invisible agents in our midst control the world around us. That all power structures and figures of authority are a…
Ralphie and Jeanie Vol. 1 – The Appealing Misadventures of Alabaster Pizzo’s Loveable Losers Collected
Ralphie and Jeanie Vol. 1 by Alabaster Pizzo is an interesting turn for an artist who has already honed her craft so well as a cartoonist. Unlike Pizzo’s long running…
Orbiting – Penina Gal’s Graphic Narrative Tugs at Universal Heartstrings with Evocative Abstract Storytelling
Pushing the boundaries of what might be categorized as a comic, Penina Gal’s Orbiting combines words and imagery to tug at universal heartstrings while simultaneously digging into the specifically personal….
The Short Con – Meet Schoolkid Detectives Pops and Branwell in Pete Toms and Aleks Sennwald’s All-Ages Project
Pete Toms and Aleks Sennwald’s graphic novella The Short Con is on its surface the first of what hints at a larger series of children’s comics, but beneath that lies…
Funeral Parlor – Robert Young’s Autobio Offering Lends an Air of the Profound to the Pro Wrestling Ring
Many autobio comics stylize the events they are depicting to give them flair beyond the original incidents. But what if the events being depicted are already hyper real? Robert Young…
Sugar Town – Hazel Newlevant Explores the Complexities of Relationships in this Self-Published Autobio Offering
At what point does the taboo become normalized, even mundane? What power does art have in this process? These are questions to ponder over when reading Hazel Newlevant’s latest autobiographical…
Broken Frontier Anthology
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