There are several things going on in Geneviève Lebleu’s debut Weeding that don’t register with one’s first reading. The body horror, unsurprisingly, becomes the most engrossing thing about the book…
We are plunged into the world of Brigitte Archambault’s unnamed protagonist in The Shiatsung Project without a preamble. We aren’t given any information about who she is, why she lives…
Building a haunting tale around the life of the teenage Grand Duchess Anastasia, the daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, The Gift merges historical events with the stark…
One of the joys of following the publishing output of as eclectic a publisher as Conundrum Press has been discovering not just new voices from the North American scene but…
Described as a fictionalised mash-up of her diaries from 2012-2015, Veronica Post’s travelogue Langosh & Peppi: Fugitive Days, depicting the 2015 European migrant crisis, is nonetheless based on real events,…
What makes the characters in Anna Sommer’s The Unknown so compelling is that they are all such flawed and, in some cases, almost broken individuals. Yet such is the subtlety…
Strictly speaking, Canadian indie artist Howard Chackowicz’s Nothing to See Here isn’t actually comics given that it’s a book of mostly single illustration cartoons. But this Conundrum Press collection of…
Wage Slaves brings an audacious openness to some unknown realities: being an immigrant and having very little money, and the ease at which certain employers and institutions can exploit these…
The lurching feeling in your stomach as you find yourself endlessly falling into a void. It’s a triggering sensation that will have abruptly woken many of us from our slumber…
One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…
Some of the most powerful slice-of-life work speaks to us so eloquently not through an overt attempt at ostentatious profoundness but rather because it reveals familiar truths with a quiet…
Rebecca Rosen’s Flem is a deliberately challenging comic on a number of levels. It’s a book which asks the reader to interpret and find meaning in its protagonist Julia Maarten’s…
Almost a sequential art ode to (specifically) vinyl records, and more generally to the joy of collecting and the nostalgia rush it brings, Lorenz Peter’s On Vinyl comes to us courtesy…
Combining the starkest humour, a line in energetic yet bleak slapstick, and the rawest autobiography, The Vagabond Valise by Siris (published by Conundrum Press) traces the artist’s story from the…
“Tragedy comes to New Yorkers so naturally…” So says Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, a renowned figure on the 1930s-40s New York press beat in one key sequence in the pages…
A comics travelogue with a markedly different structure from the norm, Alison McCreesh’s Norths from Conundrum Press is both a window into the peculiar realities of living above the 60th…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
A long overdue compilation of work from this vital figure in Canadian indie comics. Henriette Valium, aka Patrick Henley, is recognised as one of the most important French-Canadian cartoonists of…
Welcoming Steve Walsh into the Broken Frontier Hall of Fame and Celebrating His Incredible Work in Building Comics Community in the UK in the Last DecadeJanuary 14, 2022
Inside Look: I Am a Leader of My House – PositiveNegatives’ New Webcomic with The New Humanitarian and Fahmida Azim Tells the Stories of Two Rohingya Women in Their Fight for EqualityDecember 21, 2021
The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw – The History of a Comics Community Success StoryDecember 6, 2021
“Comics is Where I Live” – Taki Soma on Her Powerful Graphic Memoir ‘Sleeping While Standing’ and the Avery Hill KickstarterDecember 3, 2021
“I Think There’s So Much Room in Comics for Experimentation – George Wylesol on His “Point and Click” Graphic Novel ‘2120’ and the Avery Hill KickstarterNovember 29, 2021
