deniz camp A Politics of Dream - Thoughts on 20th Century Men by Deniz Camp, S. Morian, and Aditya Bidikar 20th Century Men doesn’t overtly bill itself as a superhero comic. And to be fair, it shouldn’t. It is a post-superhero superhero book.
Screenshot Reviews #screenshot reviews- Dune Book 2 & Parker Girls #1 Check out our capsule reviews of Dune The Graphic Novel Book 2 and Parker Girls #1
Week In Comics Journalism (More Than) 5 Things to Read this Week Reviews from Panel Patter and Broken Frontier, Jim Woodring in the New Yorker, a Nate Garcia interview, Shelfdust does Christopher Priest Black Panther, and more in this week's set of links.
Abrams Books Simpsons Comics Return with Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 - Scary Tales and Scarier Tentacles Simpsons Comics have never had more than a paperback collection, and it's fulfilling to see the comics celebrated in such a loving way.
gengoroh tagame "Assuming it's about a 'boy and girl.'"- thoughts on Gengoroh Tagame's Our Colors Tagame shows us the pressure of the secrets and the truths. This book is shaped around empathy, something that Sora doesn’t think he will find...
Grant Snider Overanalyzing the Overexamined Life - Pausing for Grant Snider's The Art of Living As impressed as I am about the way Snider manages to refine certain elements of his cartooning while maintaining his core minimalism, it’s the philosophy at the center of the book that requires examination.
Ram V Where Are You, Demon? Detective Comics 1062 The existential crisis that drives Batman stems from a five-second decline. This is the kind of Batman we’re working with.
Week In Comics Journalism 5 Things To Read This Week Welcome to our somewhat re-branded link post highlighting five things we think should be on your radar from the week that was. *John Jennings' Megascope, an Abrams Imprint, is coming up on its two year anniversary. Focusing on speculative ficiton by and about people of color, the impint is home
Screenshot Reviews #screenshot Reviews- X-Men: Hellfire Gala, Immortal X-Men #4, A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment Before the A.X.E. event starts, let's catch up with X-Men: The Hellfire Gala, Immortal X-Men #4, and A.X.E.: Judgment Day.
Tillie Walden Surviving the Teenage Apocalypse in Tillie Walden's Clementine Book One Tillie Walden's Clementine is The Breakfast Club set during a zombie apocalypse.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- July 9, 2022 A look at recent news in comics, including the passing of critic R.C. Harvey, a Steve Dillon retrospective, the original art collection of David Mandel, and problems calling characters "crazy."
Screenshot Reviews #screenshot reviews- Batman #125 & Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: Old Man Whittier Check out our capsule reviews of Hellboy and the BPRD: Old Man Whitter, and Batman #125, Chip Zdarsky's first issue.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism-- July 2nd, 2022 A look at recent news in comics, including the new Marvel Penguin Classics, Doonesbury, Gender Queer, Maus, Red Room, DC's Pride Special, and Clementine.
barry windsor-smith "A Dream of Dying" in Barry Windsor-Smith's Weapon X Maybe no one told Barry Windsor-Smith that he was telling a Wolverine story because Weapon X certainly doesn't read like one.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- June 19th, 2022 Look back at the week that was, including two pieces about fighting book banning, Grant Morrison and Alec Longstreth interviews, and looks at recent comics by Nate Garcia and Gary Panter.
gilbert hernandez From the Archives- Julio's Day (2013) A simple life doesn’t necessarily equal a life that is simple as Gilbert Hernandez reminds us in Julio’s Day, the story of a man’s 100-year life that spans the 20th century.
Screenshot Reviews #screenshot reviews- Hellboy and the BPRD: Night of the Cyclops, That Texas Blood #14, & Aquaman: Andromeda #1 Check out our capsule reviews of Hellboy and the BPRD: Night of the Cyclops, That Texas Blood #14, and Aquaman: Andromeda #1
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics' Journalism-- June 11th, 2022 Look back at the week that was, including a podcast anniversary, a long-running manga taking a month off, and wondering about what comics you may have missed.
Alec Robbins Love in the Age of Cartoons- a look at Alec Robbins' Mr. Boop Alec Robbins really loves Betty Boop. That’s probably the most straightforward fact about Robbin’s Mr. Boop. From there, Robbins and his book just get… weird. Here’s the premise of this book: Betty Boop is the cartoon character and Alec is married to her. Alec thinking “My wife
From The Archives From the Archives- Paul Moves Out (2005) Rabagliati's semi-confessional story is a wonderful slice of life story that you just can't get in any other storytelling format. Rabagliati takes advantage of comic's ability to easily make the reader identify with the characters and pull them in for a most unremarkable story.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism-- June 5th, 2022 A look at this week's comic writing from Publisher's Weekly, Sequential, Paul Gravett, Panel Patter, Ligne Claire, The Washington Post, and Newsarama.
From The Archives From The Archives- Jonah Hex #50 (December 2009) Maybe Hex wants to change, maybe he doesn't. But he's never given the opportunity to choose who or what he wants to be. He's a killer, and as fate will have it, that's all he's going to remain.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- May 28th, 2022 A look at some of what happened this week in (and outside) of comics, including writing by Calvin Reid, Graeme McMillan, Alex Dueben, and Rob Clough.
Julie Doucet Welcome to the Party in Julie Doucet's Time Zone J Julie Doucet's time away from comics has given her the freedom to just jump back into their creation, rewriting the rules about how she’s going to tell her story.
Week In Comics Journalism This Week in Comics Journalism- May 21st, 2022 It's been a while since we've done one of these. We'll try to do better in the future, we promise. But instead of wallowing in the general time suck that is life, let's just jump into a few of the things that have caught our eyes this week, including more
