School Spirits
Anya Davidson has described School Spirits as a book about female friendship. And it is: Oola and Garf are the Maggie and Hopey of death metal, best friends who weather the storms of high school, petty crime, and youthful infatuation together. Continue reading
Bumperhead
Gilbert Hernandez nails his title character’s emotional essence in the very first panel of Bumperhead, the prolific cartoonist’s hormonally overdriven anatomy of adolescence. Continue reading
The Auteur Volume One: President’s Day
Spears and Callahan’s The Auteur opens with a dream-trip sequence that might as well be the first six issues in nutshell: a naked man swims through an undersea ideaspace in search of creative inspiration. Continue reading
Final Incal
At the climax of Moebius and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s original Incal series, the protagonist John DiFool encounters God, or somebody very like him: a big, golden, flowing-beareded divine being named ORH. ORH then changes into a cosmic baby as the universe … Continue reading
Sugar Skull
Could the colorful Hergé-inspired trilogy Charles Burns concludes with Sugar Skull be read as a formally audacious sequel to his black-and-white masterpiece Black Hole? Continue reading
July Diary 2014
Each panel feels like a tiny, beautifully constructed diorama, where Bell and her acquaintances will act out the same moment forever. Continue reading
Shoplifter
A disillusioned copywriter navigates big-city loneliness in the handsome debut graphic novel from Toronto illustrator Michael Cho. Continue reading
Never Forgets
Yumi Sakugawa’s Never Forgets is an exploration into a more abstract strain of alienation, the sort of bodily disconnect that forces a woman to efface herself to become a more admired, “true self.” Continue reading
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