Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter
Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter makes for a strange bit of business. First, it’s an odds-and-sods assortment of illustration, microfiction, and photography chronicling Derek Van Gieson’s salad days in New York City. Second, who in the hell is … Continue reading
The Greatest of Marlys
If you were asking me (and I’m just going to assume that you already did, very quietly, to yourself just now) what the essential quality is for any worthwhile “young adult” author, I would say it’s first and foremost honesty. … Continue reading
The Greatest of Marlys
The Greatest of Marlys collects Barry’s comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek, which ran in alt-weekly newspapers like The Chicago Reader and The Seattle Stranger. The book features a selection of stories about Marlys, a scrappy red-headed prepubescent girl living with … Continue reading
Kramers Ergot 9
It must be stated up front that Kramers Ergot has made life far too easy for critics. Anthologies are often difficult to analyze, because most of them wear the pragmatic limits of their creation like flimsy invisible dust jackets. It … Continue reading
It Is the Bad Time
In the fall of 2015, I curated an art exhibition at Appalachian State University titled “At the Junction of Words and Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of the Center for Cartoon Studies”. The show was not an unqualified success—as a first-time … Continue reading
Dream Tube
The eye is unavoidable throughout Rebekka Dunlap’s debut comics collection, Dream Tube. In the first of the book’s stories, “Brooklyn Witch Tweets”, readers meet a sexually-frustrated illustrator with an eye for a head. In “Cities and Spaces and”, a man … Continue reading
Compass South
Compass South is a YA adventure graphic novel, a genre I’m happy to see revived in comics. While the story shows its influences to a distracting degree (Tintin, et al), it’s an entertaining, suspenseful tale, albeit with a bit of … Continue reading
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