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Poochytown
For a book with the decadence, the visual languor that Poochytown boasts, the momentum that Woodring musters by casually unrolling wonders and oddities is perhaps the oddest thing on display. Like all the best comics, it’s easier to read than it is not to. Continue reading
Coyote Doggirl
Meet Coyote Doggirl (CD). Half dog, half coyote, all attitude, CD not only marches to the beat of her own drum, but she probably made the drum herself from an animal she personally hunted and skinned. Continue reading
Spain, Volume 1: Street Fighting Men
Spain Rodriguez was a living legend in multiple ways that may very well grow more difficult to understand with the passing years since his death in 2012. For one thing, now little recalled outside of his adopted zone of activity, … Continue reading
The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories
Marguerite Dabaie’s The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories unfolds the serious and often stigmatic experience of being an Arab-American. This collection of short comics has been ten years in the making. Dabaie first self-published several of these stories because … Continue reading
NOW #3
The one thing Now is best at is showing exactly how much the comics canon has been blown open in the last ten years. Continue reading
Hasib & The Queen of Serpents
The result is something that reflects a stylized version of age of the stories without indulging in stereotype or essentialist fantasy. Continue reading
Soviet Daughter
The subject of Julia Alekseyeva’s biographical comic Soviet Daughter, her great-grandmother Lola, left her life savings to her great-granddaughter. However, Alekseyeva’s real inheritance was Lola’s memoir, which she instructed her family not to read until she died. Khinya “Lola” Ignatovskaya … Continue reading
Angloid
If Alex Graham’s Angloid is not even semi-autobiographical, I am probably being straight-up rude for assuming it is. The protagonist drinks too much, smells bad, and propositions much older men only to then face the further indignity of being laughed … Continue reading
