Runner Runner
An excellent sampler of the most experienced cartoonists from the West Coast scene who are mostly known for their minicomics. Continue reading
Marbles
This is less a story than it is a therapy journal comic, but Forney’s instincts as an entertainer kick in even on the dreariest of pages. Continue reading
Windowpane
Kessler runs the gamut of genres, philosophical ideas, and storytelling styles, filtering them through a color sense that dominates the comic more than any other element. Continue reading
Abelard
A bit of text in the lower left corner of the cover to Abelard describes it as a “magical graphic novel.” That should have tipped me off right away. Continue reading
Prison Pit Book Four
We’re not seeing a whole lot in Prison Pit Book Four that we haven’t seen already — we’re just seeing more of it. Continue reading
The Return of the Magic Whistle #12
This is the first “real” issue of Henderson’s classic Magic Whistle series in quite some time, and it sees Henderson at his best. Continue reading
Beta Testing the Apocalypse
Tom Kaczynski is an artist of extremes. His affectless, antiseptic pages might make you think otherwise, with their crisply ruled angles, their fastidious tones, their careful and deliberate air. Their surface is calm, sure; but neither do we find roiling … Continue reading
Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour
An illustrated biography of the great romance cartoonist. Continue reading
