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Why is Guy Delisle turning his observant, careful, dispassionate eye upon himself? That was the first question that popped into my mind a few pages into Factory Summers. I thought…
New comics work from Gareth Brookes – whether it be experimental zines and minicomics or full-length graphic novel – is always to be eagerly anticipated such is his dedication to…
The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…
There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…
Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…
As Rosie (the Rabbit) puts it part-way through Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits, “there are certain aspects of being alive that are impossible to control.” This is true of her hormonal…
The artist said it himself and it’s set to be a cliché in relation to his work, but it’s true that Nathan Cowdry’s Crash Site is not for everybody. Not…
To open a new book like The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens is the equivalent of breaking out a bottle of fine wine: It marks a special occasion, warrants…
There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…
Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…
Creator Megan Huang (Princeless, Jia and the Nian Monster) launches a promising sci-fi/fantasy adventure with Rangers of the Divide. The nations of Veil and Ryllion are continuously at war, yet…
There’s something about troubled families that clearly attracts Adam Smith and Matt Fox. It is a theme the writer-illustrator team last explored on Long Walk to Valhalla a little over…
From H.G. Wells’s classic novella to Avengers: Endgame––love them or loathe them––tales of time travel are a staple in science-fiction. The difficulty lies in creating a narrative that does something…
A House Without Windows is an important and necessary read to acknowledge the current state of affairs in the Central African Republic and to look through the windows provided for…
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is bookended (although they are heavily featured in the middle too) by two young men. One is River Phoenix, the beautiful young actor…
That striking sentence-long title is literal. BOOM! Studios’ creator-owned We Only Find Them When They’re Dead features 24th century humanity’s encounters with city-sized intergalactic Gods, who are always dead on…
“Becoming a woman isn’t exactly what I call a hobby.” Originally published in German by Reprodukt, in 2018 Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir is the recent release from BOOM! Studios’ award-winning…
Brampton, in Canada’s province of Ontario, is home to one of the largest groups of immigrants in the country. It often makes the list of most diverse cities in North…
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