Good News Bible: The Deadline Strips of Shaky Kane
The best-designed books don’t just look nice, they make statements about what’s inside of them. Whether or not those statements get backed up is the author’s responsibility; but good design has a way of laying expectations out on the table. … Continue reading
Saigon Calling
Every war is a tragedy for both sides – even good wars, when you can find them. That’s hardly a novel observation. What’s also true, if less observed, is that every war is also avoidable. Even the necessary wars. The … Continue reading
The Battle of Churubusco
In 1847, during one of its innumerable westward expansions, the United States sent its army into a disputed area of Mexico. Facing recalcitrance in its bid to absorb California, the budding imperial power set its eyes south, and at one … Continue reading
Red Winter
In Annelli Furmark’s Red Winter, love is something that doesn’t merely exist in a vacuum shared by two people, but subtly adjusts the course of everyone even on the outskirts of the emotion. The pair in love are unlikely for … Continue reading
Iceland
This is an English translation of a 2015 story by neo manga artist Yokoyama. An author’s afterword describes Iceland as a sequel to the creator’s earlier World Map Room, but this tense, terse text stands up fine on its own … Continue reading
VS #1
VS is the new Image series by Esad Ribic, Nic Klein, and Ivan Brandon. It takes place in the blurred borders between a first-person shooter and a reality show about war. The first issue follows soldier/gamer Satta Flynn, as he recovers … Continue reading
Blue Teeth
The Iron Curtain still exists. To me anyway, it seems like Russia is still the world power that you have to go through the darkest mirror to see. Whether it’s the Russians Are Awesome youtube channel, the propaganda apparatus of … Continue reading
Awaiting the Collapse: Selected Works 1974-2014
In “Highwire”, the opening entry in Paul Kirchner’s new collection Awaiting the Collapse, a tightrope walker navigates the skyway of a busy metropolis. The walker’s magical high wire takes him over skyscrapers and into offices, dinner parties, supermarkets, and the … Continue reading
