Letting It Go
One would never have expected the artist behind We Are On Our Own to have such delightful comic timing, but Katin is able to both expunge irrational but deeply held feelings and understand them for what they are. Continue reading
Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories
Starting in 1998, and continuing apace today, Katchor has presided over a full-color single page in each issue of Metropolis magazine. The bulk of these efforts—fourteen years worth of wry, restless, deeply curious cartooning—are now collected in Hand-Drying in America Continue reading
Muse
In situations like this, it is useful to examine the counter-plan suggested by the authors, their “response” to the dominant paradigm they are largely working in yet ostensibly criticizing. Continue reading
District 14: Season 1
Shite, I thought. Is this going to be completely trite Euronoir like Blacksad, a pile of clichés enlivened only by the gimmick of giving stock characters animal heads? Continue reading
Black Is the Color
As befits a comic that mostly takes place in a rowboat going nowhere in the middle of the ocean, Black Is the Color frequently collapses time and space into one another. Often its two-panel rows, or indeed entire pages, will … Continue reading
Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary
A remarkable biography, rich in the details of the major events in Capp’s life Continue reading
Runner Runner
An excellent sampler of the most experienced cartoonists from the West Coast scene who are mostly known for their minicomics. Continue reading
