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Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Poignant Graphic Novel Debut on Queer Love, Family and the Detriment of Expectations, from Fantagraphics

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • June 10, 2021

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…

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Dog Biscuits – Alex Graham’s COVID Comic is an Engrossing and Ambitious Look at Modern Society

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 8, 2021

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…

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Crash Site – Nathan Cowdry’s Graphic Novel Tickles Your Ribs and Also Strikes Them a Few Times with a Hot Poker

  • by Nicholas Burman
  • June 7, 2021

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…

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The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens Transfers a Beguiling Dream to Paper Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2021

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…

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Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful – The Evil that Some Men Do is Laid Out in Stunning Simplicity By Darryl Cunningham

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 3, 2021

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…

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Beatnik Buenos Aires – A Charcoal and Smoke-Filled Tribute to the ’60s Argentinian Art-Scene

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 28, 2021

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…

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Rangers of the Divide #1 – Megan Huang’s Smart Mix of Sci-Fi Technology and Dragon Adventure Makes for a Compelling Page-Turner

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • May 28, 2021

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…

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The Down River People – Adam Smith and Matt Fox Plunge into Southern Gothic Literature

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 27, 2021

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…

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Time Before Time #1 – Time is Out of Joint in Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville and Joe Palmer’s New Series from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 26, 2021

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…

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A House Without Windows – Life Drawn Present Didier Kassaï’s Comic Art Alongside Marc Ellison’s Photography in This Unflinching Documentary of the ‘Forgotten Crisis’ in the Central African Republic

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • May 24, 2021

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…

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Mannie Murphy Excavates Portland, Celebrities and White Nationalism in this Extraordinary Underground History

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 21, 2021

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…

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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Vol. 1 – BOOM! Studios’ Bold and Bracing Sci-Fi Spectacle Faces Issues in/with Space

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 14, 2021

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…

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Girlsplaining: A (Sorta) Memoir – Katja Klengel Explores “What Being a Woman Today Means to Her”

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 12, 2021

“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…

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Cyclopedia Exotica – Aminder Dhaliwal Uses Her Second Graphic Novel to Ask Us All a Few Uncomfortable Questions, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 10, 2021

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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The Spider’s Syndicate of Crime – The 1960s King of Crooks Returns to Print in Stories by Ted Cowan, Jerry Siegel and Reg Bunn

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! My first encounter with perhaps the most enigmatic character in the history of UK British weekly comics was in the pages of the slick 1970s…

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Faceache: The Ken Reid Years Vol. 1 – Marvel at the First 100 Scrunges in this Collection of the Landmark British Humour Strip

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 7, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! Just a few short years ago the work of Ken Reid – one of the most popular and important cartoonists in  the history of British…

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The Return of Sexton Blake Special – Rebellion Bring the Adventures of the Classic Detective to a Whole New Generation of Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! When a character’s first appearance was in a publication titled The Halfpenny Marvel you can be fairly sure they have had a long and rich…

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The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Vol. I-II – Decades on, Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence’s Masterpiece Lives Up to Its Legendary Status

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2021

TREASURY OF BRITISH COMICS WEEK! If you grew up as a comics fan in the 1970s in the UK you’ll no doubt have a version of this story to tell….

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