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
Baby’s in Black
If you came to Baby’s in Black, writer-artist Arne Bellstorf’s take on the young Beatles’ bohemian demimonde in early-‘60s Hamburg, expecting a darkly glamorous romantic tragedy amid the gathering clouds of a pop-culture hurricane—well, I can’t say I’d blame you. … Continue reading
Athos In America
In many ways, Athos In America feels like the artist looking back at his body of work to date. Continue reading
