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Doggie Style: The Complete Dog Boy/Death in Oaxaca
Steve Lafler is one of those too-late-for-Underground-Comix artists who nevertheless reflected the satirical affect of the 1970s in all its daffy and sometimes dopey energy. Too bad he was only 16 in 1979. On the other hand, he’s a still … Continue reading
Trash Market
Trash Market collects several of Tadao Tsuge’s comics short stories about life in impoverished postwar Toyko. Continue reading
Colville and Black River
Colville by Steven Gilbert and Black River by Josh Simmons use genre not to entertain, but to carve away at something rotten. Continue reading
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
We are, with the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary/commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, about at the end of the Civil War gala; or perhaps never at the end. An estimated 60,000 books have been published on the War, with no … Continue reading
The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
Getting Eric Orner’s The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green published in one volume is an important step to building continuity in the history of gay comics. Once a widely-distributed strip in gay-oriented publications, the comic became popular and … Continue reading
The Sculptor
I have three fundamental difficulties with Scott McCloud’s years-in-the-making opus, The Sculptor. First, the way the female love interest is portrayed betrays a staggering lack of nuance regarding mental illness and borders on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope that … Continue reading
Miseryland
A new collection of quietly droll comics from the multiple Ignatz-nominated artist, examining domesticity, marriage, child rearing, and anxiety. Continue reading
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