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Post York – Dark Horse Delivers a Gorgeous (and Murky) Drenched Post-Apocalypse by James Romberger

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • March 17, 2021

Post York is a graphic novel of few words, but its concerns are neatly summarised by its epigraph: Michel Foucault saying how “man is an invention of recent date. And…

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Now #7 – Fantagraphics’ ‘New Comics Anthology’ is a Powerful Advocate for the Diverse Storytelling Potential of the Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2020

Fantagraphics’ anthology series Now (subtitled The New Comics Anthology) has gained deserved critical acclaim in its seven-issue life to date. Indeed it was nominated in both our 2017 and 2019…

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For Real #1 – Graphic Medicine and Graphic Biography Merge in James Romberger’s Multi-Layered Exploration of Pivotal Moments in the Life of Jack Kirby

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2019

James Romberger’s For Real is a narrative of layers. Not just in the overlapping timeframes of its main comics story ‘The Oven’ but also in the supplementary essay that follows…

The Late Child by Marguerite Von Cook and James Romberger (Fantagraphics Books)

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The Late Child and Other Animals – A Rich, Lyrical and Expressionistic Look Back at a Difficult Childhood

  • by Tom Murphy
  • January 9, 2015

 In The Late Child and Other Animals, Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger team up again to produce a lyrical, visceral and expressionistic memoir of a difficult childhood. Even if…

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