The Lychee Light Club
Adolescent male mass hysteria permeates Usamaru Furuya’s The Lychee Light Club. Continue reading
Approximate Continuum Comics
Reading an excerpt of Lewis Trondheim’s Approximate Continuum Comics in the pages of the SPX 2000 anthology sparked my interest in modern European comics. Originally published as a series of U.S.-style single issues in the early 1990s, it was supposed … Continue reading
Pinocchio
A wordless comic adaptation of the famous tale rendered horrifying, grotesque, and often quite funny. Continue reading
Gazeta
Despite breaking a number of rules that I look to when judging an anthology’s merit, Gazeta nonetheless hangs together in remarkable fashion. Continue reading
Kiki de Montparnasse
This graphic novel is ostensibly a straightforward biography of the bawdy loudmouth who would become known as the Queen of 1920s bohemian Montparnasse. Continue reading
Paping Teacher’s Edition
All too often in comics, one reads a potent cultural critique served up in the most conventional, commercially slick style imaginable. Comic shelves are cluttered with “political’” manifestos that employ garish computer type for text, unimaginative drawing and treacly writing. … Continue reading
Xombi #1
Xombi #1 is an object lesson in how modern mainstream comics can be good in almost every way, and still come out unsatisfying. Continue reading
Empire State
When compared against the best moments in what’s considered his breakout work, Bookhunter, Meanwhile read like a victory-lap turned middle-fingers-extended snarl. Continue reading
