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    Nothing to See Here – Howard Chackowicz’s Conundrum Press Collection of Cartoons Ranges from the Uncompromisingly Crude to the Surprisingly Profound

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 3, 2020

    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…

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    Wage Slaves – Daria Bogdańska Exposes Immigrant Exploitation in Bold Graphic Memoir from Centrala

    • by Rebecca Burke
    • March 19, 2020

    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…

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    Plummet – Experience a Life in Freefall in Sherwin Tjia’s Fantastic Tale of Survival and Human Nature from Conundrum Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 6, 2020

    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…

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    Simon & Louise – Max de Radiguès Explores Teenage Love and Summer Separation in a Beautifully Understated Slice-of-Life Tale

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 28, 2019

    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…

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    Taxi!: Stories from the Back Seat – Aimée de Jongh’s Collection of Interweaving Encounters with Taxi Drivers Has a Quiet and Compelling Humanity

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 4, 2019

    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…

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    Flem – Rebecca Rosen’s Fever Dream of a Graphic Novel Traces the Course of a Young Life in Crisis

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 9, 2019

    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…

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    On Vinyl – Lorenz Peter’s Ode to Collecting Reminds Us of the Intimate Relationship Between Nostalgia and Melancholy

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 23, 2019

    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…

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    The Vagabond Valise – Siris Brings the Harsh Realities of the Foster Family System of ’60s/’70s Quebec to Grim Life in an Unforgettable Piece of Autobio Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 1, 2019

    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…

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    Weegee: Serial Photographer – Max de Radiguès and Wauter Mannaert Take Us to 1930s New York in Conundrum Press’s Fascinating Graphic Biography

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 23, 2018

    “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…

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    Norths – An Appealing Circumpolar Family Adventure from Alison McCreesh and Conundrum Press

    • by Andy Oliver
    • May 31, 2018

    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…

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    The Palace of Champions – The Dizzying, Whirling and Claustrophobic Visual Language of Henriette Valium

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 2, 2017

    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…

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    Blackbird – Pierre Maurel’s Tale of Fugitive Zinesters Highlights the Irrepressible Spirit of DIY Culture

    • by Tom Murphy
    • May 27, 2016

    In a scenario that will send shudders through a sizeable chunk of our readership, Pierre Maurel’s graphic novel Blackbird depicts a world in which self-publishing becomes illegal. We’re a broad-minded lot here…

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