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In recent years, Steven Appleby has been heard on occasion to speak two words in particular about what good art should be: ‘ambitious’ and ‘engaging’. Dragman is, of course, both….
Broadly speaking, coming-of-age tales are ostentatious affairs. They’re about profound discoveries, rites of passage and moments of epiphany on the road to whatever is loosely defined as adulthood. Sophie Yanow’s…
When I Came Out tells the story of Louise, a middle-aged woman who, as the title suggests, comes out. The book navigates her early life including her first crush, her…
One of the many problems facing aging freelance writer Max Winter is that his pulp-magazine publisher has taken the rights to his cowboy character, the Red Rover Kid, away from…
With an Ignatz Award win over the weekend in the category of Outstanding Anthology our review subject today is a timely one. Be Gay, Do Comics celebrates the queer experience…
Picture the scene, gentle reader. It’s the balmy spring of 2014, and a fresh-faced dreamer just setting out on his Broken Frontier journey reviews Titan’s collected edition of The Absence,…
Graduates of the Kubert School, Emma Kubert (also a third generation artist from that illustrious family name) and Rusty Gladd bring an appealing new fantasy world to comics in the…
On his way to finally lay Effie to rest, Andy runs into a few unexpected surprises in Lemire and Nguyen’s Ascender #12 from Image Comics. Picking up after the heartwrenching…
Baron and Carbonetti lay out a lucid reimagining of one of music’s most iconic legends in Paul is Dead by Image Comics. To the well initiated, the legend of P.I.D….
Rik Worth and Jordan Collver return with the second issue of Hocus Pocus: Magic, Mystery and the Mind, and it does not disappoint. The book continues its fun, multi-hyphenate approach…
Potatoes! Love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them! (Certainly not if you grew up in an Irish family in the 1970s.) Anyway, one of those magnificent jewels of…
Something of a curio and a sidestep in the annals of Jim Woodring’s Unifactor stories And Now, Sir — Is THIS Your Missing Gonad? takes his signature anthropomorphic Frank character…
In Wine: A Graphic History, Benoist Simmat, Daniel Casanave, and SelfMadeHero offer an accessible glimpse into the centuries-spanning history of the nectar of the vine. From pioneers of the natural…
The Dreams of Queer Utopia combines 13 different takes on the theme, compiled by editor and Finnish comic artist H-P Lehkonen and Paju Ruotsalaine from artists all over the world…
The Lulu Moppet who first appeared in February of 1935 was a far cry from the girl millions of readers have grown familiar with in the decades since. That first…
I was very pleased when Henry McCausland’s Eight-Lane Runaways appeared on the scrawled sheet of “new bukks” (sic) that Andy Oliver pushes under our cell doors every Sunday morning. It…
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G and J.R. Zuckerberg aims to provide information about LGBTQ+ identities and labels by explaining some of these numerous identities…
Launched in June, the Insider Art digital anthology aims to provide financial help for female and non-binary retailers as a response to the repercussions of the pandemic. With a playfully…
