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The Reveries of E.A. Bethea
E.A. Bethea’s comics read as a detailed, confessional fever dream. Continue reading

Telling on Your Secrets: Comics from Kevin Budnik, 2014-2017
In Budnik’s comics, he reveals his deepest fears and the ongoing, active experience of living with mental illness. Continue reading

Rediscovering Genre: Study Group Comics
A close look at the recent output of Zack Soto’s genre-focused small publishing house, Study Group. Continue reading

The Best Short-Form Comics of 2016
Our minicomics columnist chooses his thirty favorite shortform comics published last year. Continue reading

The Comics Nurturer: Kevin Czap & Czap Books
Kevin Czap was recently awarded the Emerging Talent award at the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) festival, a fitting honor for a cartoonist and publisher who is starting to publish on a more aggressive basis. A self-proclaimed “Comics Mom,” Czap’s goal … Continue reading

A Retrofit Comics Survey
Taking stock of a wide, stylistically various range of comics, released over the past three years by the imprint run by Box Brown and Big Planet Comics. Continue reading

Twenty Small Press Anthologies Of Note
Taking the pulse of the alt-comics world by way of a traditional method: evaluating anthologies. Continue reading

Reading Centrala
A survey of the new Polish/English imprint’s early and recent output, which ranges from all-ages material to autobio to stuff that’s far stranger. Continue reading