Are You My Mother?
If Fun Home is a riveting Tolstoyan family tale, then Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother?, is decidedly Freudian in its language and methods: keenly analytic, explanatory, and often clinical. Continue reading
Nancy is Happy: Complete Dailies 1943-1945
What we think we know about Bushmiller’s imbecile epic gets upended by delving in to this much consecutive Nancy. Continue reading
Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and the Little King
Otto Soglow was one of the central cartoonists of mid-century America. With this book, we can finally begin to gauge his achievement. Continue reading
The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist
The Art of Daniel Clowes manages to cram an entire career—along with sketches, original art, photographs, personal artifacts and rare strips—into 224 utterly handsome pages. Continue reading
Conan the Barbarian #1-3
Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s approach to the Conan legacy is conservative, perhaps even reverential, but quietly subversive, as well Continue reading
Jeffrey Brown’s Cat Comics
A look at cartoonist Jeffrey Brown’s various cat-themed books. Continue reading
