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Friendship is Key to Survival in Katherine Lang’s Soul to Call

April 18, 2018 By Ben Howard 1 Comment

Rarely in discussions of apocalyptic fiction is friendship brought up. My personal observation is that the genre focuses on whatever topic is relevant in the current political discourse (i.e., Planet of the Apes). Whenever human interaction is brought up, it’s usually the worst ways possible. Many apocalyptic storytellers seem to think humanity’s negative qualities will […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, horror, indie comics, Katherine Lang, Soul to Call, webcomics

Here’s an Idea for a Funhouse: Pay the Damn Cartoonists

April 3, 2018 By Austin Lanari 2 Comments

Funhouse

Do cartoonists deserve to be paid for their labor? It’s a yes or no question. And, frankly, it doesn’t seem to be a very hard question. But I’ll give you a minute. A week before my writing this, Brooklyn comic book store Desert Island and the SoHo based Drawing Center put on an event called […]

Filed Under: Features, News Tagged With: art, Broken Frontier, comics, Desert Island, Drawing Center, Funhouse, indie comics, Robin Enrico

Bingo Love has Laudable Aims but Its Storytelling Falters

February 2, 2018 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Queer people don’t usually get to see themselves live happily ever after in most media. We get the love stories that end in tragedy. This is largely because non-queer people are making most of the media that represents us–which means we’re not really represented in it at all. So it’s refreshing to see a book […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bingo Love, comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Jenn St-onge, Joy San, Tee Franklin

On Eddie Berganza and the Misperceptions of Wrongful Dismissal

November 10, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Eddie Berganza

Since it has now become public knowledge that Buzzfeed will be reporting on the Eddie Berganza situation at DC Comics, and thus might very well cause DC to finally take firm action on Berganza or at least inspire more people to demand action, it feels necessary to discuss one of the most frequently asked questions […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, DC Comics, Eddie Berganza, employment law, sexual harassment

“Long Lost” #1 has the Creeping, Eerie Pace Every Horror Comic Needs

October 31, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Long Lost comic

Long Lost #1 refuses to answer questions. Written by Matthew Erman with art by Lisa Sterle, the book sweeps through plot points without pause, giving new information on almost every page, with an art style that varies in tone sometimes panel to panel. The book reads like a horror film, giving us enough character details […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, horror, Lisa Sterle, Long Lost, Matthew Erman

Hazel Newlevant’s Sugar Town is as Sweet and Pleasant as Its Name

October 12, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Sugar Town Hazel Newlevant

Stories about queer people can sometimes feel incomplete, even shallow. Even in 2017, it seems like a lot of stories focus on the sex, probably because that’s what straight people are likely to get hung up on when it comes to queer relationships. It’s foreign and novel, and just a bit naughty. But because of […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Hazel Newlevant, indie comics, Sugar Town

Comics Aren’t Their Creative Process

September 15, 2017 By Austin Lanari Leave a Comment

As a comic critic, at a certain point, it’s hard to keep up with the sheer volume of unjustified, shoot-from-the-hip, self-interested hot takes about the alleged piss poor quality of the average comic book review. With the amount of noise that’s been made, you would think someone would link a review or two, or at […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: comics, Criticism

Boston Terriers and Desert Vibes: A Conversation with Jay and Sanders Fabares of “The Pale”

September 14, 2017 By Ben Howard Leave a Comment

Not too long ago, I wrote a review of The Pale, a black and white mystery comic about the discovery of a burned corpse in a small desert town. Jay and Sanders Fabares are the husband/wife duo behind the comic. Sanders writes the comic while Jay handles art duties. They have been making the comic […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: comics, Jay Fabares, Sanders Fabares, The Pale, webcomics

Made Men is Too Poorly Stitched Together to Stand On Its Own

September 6, 2017 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Made Men comic

There’s this Comedy Bang! Bang! bit where Scott Aukerman is telling Reggie Watts about some new films he’s going to be in this summer. All of them are named after an innocuous phrase that they take extremely literally, like An Apple a Day, and as Aukerman goes on they get more and more absurd. I bring this […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Arjuna Susini, comics, Gonzalo Duarte, horror, Made Men, Oni Press, Paul Tobin

In Sarah Nelson’s Daniel, Toxic Masculinity is Vampiric

August 29, 2017 By Ben Howard Leave a Comment

Over time the metaphorical meaning of the vampire has diversified, shifting away from its earliest existence as a literary representation of xenophobic beliefs. Whatever cultural fear or anxiety vampires come to represent is dependent on the context of the story and the storyteller’s motivations. Sarah Nelson’s Daniel, a horror webcomic about a young man turned into a […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Daniel, horror, indie comics, Sarah Nelson, vampires, webcomics

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