The Foldings #1 – A Delightful New Fantasy Series from Joann Dominik and Faye Simms
After attending Thought Bubble this year I purchased a number of small press comics, one of the best of which has to be Joann Domink and Faye Simms The Foldings….
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Portugal – An Alternately Candlelit and Sun-Soaked Musing on a Lusophilic Awakening of the Senses and the Importance of Family
I have to say that I love Portugal more than any comic I’ve read since Moon and Ba’s Daytripper. I don’t know why, I must actually have a thing for…
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…
I’m Not Here – GG’s Study of Isolation from Koyama Press is Quiet and Sad but Not Devoid of Hope
For a hot minute at the turn of the millennium, the hot trend in superhero comics was for “widescreen” page layouts. That is, panels that took up the breadth of…
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…
Magritte: This is Not a Biography – Oh Yes it Is, Oh No it Isn’t, etc… Art History with a Healthy Helping of Hallucinatory Hat Hijinks
What if you were writing a biography, and the (deceased) subject of your work was trying to stop you? No wait, that’s too simple. What if you didn’t want to…
4 Kids Walk into a Bank – Pulp Fiction Meets Middle-School Reality in the Heist Thriller’s Trade Paperback Collection
King of quirk Wes Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket, is distinct from the rest of his oeuvre in genre if not style. It’s a crime thriller. More than that, it’s…
Mirror Mirror II – Horror and Erotica Converge in the Julia Gfrörer and Sean T. Collins-Led Anthology for 2dcloud
Horror, as we’re often told, is a safe space to explore the things that scare us. You sit in a cinema, read a book, play a videogame that gently guides…
Best Wishes – Mike Richardson and Paul Chadwick’s Tale of Hope and Romance is a Magical Piece of Storytelling
When I first set out to read Best Wishes, I was poised to be both its biggest fan and its harshest critic. Concrete being my favourite comics work of all…
Void Trip #1 – The Opening Chapter of O’Sullivan and Klaus’s Cosmic Slacker Comedy-Travelogue is an Eminently Likeable Affair
Putting a sci-fi spin on the road movie concept, Ryan O’Sullivan and Plaid Klaus’s Void Trip comes to us via Image Comics and is the product of a team with…
Doctor Who: The Lost Dimension Omega – Titan’s Multi-Doctor Crossover Proves to Be a Time-Twisting Self-Referential Triumph
Titan’s latest Doctor Who crossover comes to a dramatic end in this concluding special as the Doctors’ individual timestreams converge and the mystery of the universal threat of the Void,…
Paradiso #1 – Ram V and Devmalya Pramanik Take Us on a Tour of a Dystopian Future with a Difference Courtesy of Image Comics
The indie comics rise of writer Ram V over the last couple of years has been a remarkable one to behold. From his early days in Indian comics to his…
‘Money Worries #1’ and ‘Spare Me’ – Adventures in Capitalism and an Escape in Nature with Two Minicomics from O Panda Gordo
Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…
Dalí – Baudoin Perfectly Captures the Essence of the Great Surrealist Painter in SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters Series
Published as part of SelfMadeHero’s Art Masters series, Dalí recounts the life and work of the Spanish surrealist painter as brought to the comics page by Edmond Baudoin, the legendary…
Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart – Clan Rivalries Explode in Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Tense Vampire Thriller
Collecting issues #1-6 of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s southern fried vampire yarn, new trade paperback Redneck Volume 1: Deep in the Heart will jump off comic store shelves for…
A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press
Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…
Deadman #1 – Vintage Plot Threads Revisited in This Neal Adams Revival from DC Comics
I’ve always rather liked Deadman as a character; his original series is an undisputed classic, and nobody who has written him since has really failed to make him interesting. And…
Mr. Higgins Comes Home – Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Brings Mike Mignola’s Hammer Horror Pastiche to the Creepiest Undead Life
FRONTIER FRIGHTS! Presented in a handsomely packaged, slim hardcover format, Mr. Higgins Comes Home is both a loving homage to a classic era of Hammer Horror films and a knowing pastiche of their…
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