The Unknown Anti-War Comics
Slightly more than three dozen Charlton anti-war comics stories from mid-1950s and 1960s are collected here, beginning with four tales from Never Again Nos. 1 and 8, the first anti-war comic (which appeared in only two non=chronologically numbered issues). The … Continue reading
In Christ There Is No East or West
Have you ever felt spiritually lost? Not necessarily “looking for answers,” the sort of weakness psychics and Scientologists prey upon, but generally adrift and numb, on autopilot the way one is when very tired. Recently I felt this way for … Continue reading
James Warren, Empire of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters
This is an ambitious book about a figure hardly known outside of the world of pulps, arriving too late for the golden or even silver age of that vast trove of popular entertainment—but not quite too late to make a … Continue reading
The Perineum Technique
French cartooning team Ruppert & Mulot (whose mamas named them Florent and Jerome) are tough to put a label on. Setting aside the fact that “their creative partnership has grown so organically as to obscure the individual contribution of the … Continue reading
Off Season
We may never stop relitigating the 2016 election. (For evidence of this theory, please consult the internet.) There may be no cultural cachet in revisiting the presidential contests of the past, even ones as sexy as 2000, but the curious … Continue reading
GI Joe: Sierra Muerte #1
There are certain cartoonists I associate with certain genres of music or songs, not very intelligently for the most part, Mark Beyer comics always get Don’t Worry About the Government by Talking Heads stuck in my head for some reason. … Continue reading
This Woman’s Work
The cover of Julie Delporte’s This Woman’s Work features the author fighting a polar bear with her hands. There’s humor there, but its not a happy joke. Late in the book Delporte shares the dream from which the image of … Continue reading
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Before I get into reviewing Lucy Knisley’s new book, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, I need to own up to something. Until giving Kid Gloves a serious read, I thought of Knisley solely as a memoirist. Her five … Continue reading
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