Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between 1995 and…
The Lexicon of Comicana by cartoonist Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois) was something of a thematic forerunner of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. It represents Walker’s attempt to catalogue…
Denis Kitchen’s introduction to Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life is certainly not the usual twee and 100% gracious foreword that collections like this often begin with. Nor should it…
Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…
What continues to delight about the publishing catalogue of New York Review Comics is the way in which it embraces every era of comics, from republishing William Gropper’s 1930 proto-graphic…
New York Review Comics’ output deserves significantly more acclaim given their capacity for bringing forgotten or unknown gems of comics publishing to new readerships. The splendidly titled Masters of the…
Joe Kessler’s singular vision has been one of UK indie comics’ greatest gifts to us over the last decade. Not solely because of his astonishingly intuitive understanding of the form,…
While cartoonist Syd Hoff (1912-2002) is best known for his celebrated children’s book Danny and the Dinosaur, and syndicated newspaper strips like Tuffy and Laugh It Off, there’s a strand…
We are in something of a renaissance period when it comes to archival collections of socially relevant work like Charles Johnson’s All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End from New…
New York Review Comics – the New York Review of Books’ sequential art imprint – have been doing vital work in introducing new readers to some long out-of-print classic material…
Holding the hardcover edition of The Labyrinth in 2019 is a special feeling for a number of reasons. For a start, it shouldn’t even be here, given that it will…
As recently as the not-actually-that-long-ago pre-internet days, comics were a perilously ephemeral form – especially in the short-run circles of the small press. With no way to keep a comic…
It’s 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 storefront,…
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 or digital storefront, the…
“There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary OnlineMay 11, 2026
“It’s About Queerness, Family, Loyalty, Grief, and at its Core Love in All its Forms”- Bex Glendining on Debut Graphic Novel ‘On Starlit Shores’April 2, 2026
Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2026 – Spotlighting the Work of Daisy Crouch, Francis Todd, Jua OK!, Shri Gunasekara, Skai Campbell AKA Skhoshbell and Yu-Ching ChiuJanuary 15, 2026
Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!January 5, 2026
“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
