Kmart Shoes
Ward describes his autobiographical comics as “a therapeutic exercise.” It’s the psychological equivalent of ripping away a Band-Aid. Continue reading
Prophet #21-22
Despite its many obvious points of reference, Prophet casts its own spell, and though nominally related to Rob Liefeld’s 1990s comic, it’s light years away in execution. Continue reading
Is That All There Is?
The title’s the joke: yes, folks, this rather slim, elegantly designed hardcover contains (nearly) every published comic by Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte. The book feels both in and slightly out of sync with this particular moment in comics reprint culture, … Continue reading
Kingdom Come
J.G. Ballard’s posthumous novel Kingdom Come traces a frighteningly plausible descent from consumerism to fascism to primitivism.
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African-American Classics
This volume, which adapts classics from African-American writers and poets, is the latest entry in an increasingly ambitious line of comics adaptations of public-domain prose. Continue reading
