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Machine Gun Wizards #1-4 — Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä Bring the Magic to Eliot Ness and the Untouchables

  • by Moe Abbas
  • January 8, 2020

While Gangster yarns may be dying out in the world of cinema (see The Irishman), Dark Horse’s Machine Gun Wizards continues the age-old comics tradition of mashing up the crime…

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Mikel – SelfMadeHero Bring Together Mark Bellido and Judith Vanistendael in this Profound Semi-Autobiographical Work Detailing an Aspiring Writer’s Relentless Search for His Story

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • January 6, 2020

From the outset, Mikel interweaves two stories together: a man’s longing to become a writer, and the story he eventually ends up telling, of a man putting his family and…

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The Pits of Hell – Breakdown Press Collect the Raw, Visceral and Ever Vital Work of Alternative Mangaka Ebisu Yoshikazu

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 19, 2019

“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…

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The House – A Study of the Complex Relationships of Family and the Ties that Bind in Paco Roca’s Outstanding New Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 9, 2019

A few years back Paco Roca’s graphic novel Wrinkles was understandably acclaimed for its bittersweet portrayal of later life. It would go on to become an animated film, with voice…

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