Nick Hanover: The other day, Abhay Khosla mentioned Loser City in a post about why comics don’t really excite him anymore. (We were in there as an example as people he thinks are okay and still talking about the scene in interesting ways.) It’s a messy but worthwhile read about his frustrations with the industry […]
Red Ants Underneath: Nick Drnaso’s Beverly is a Soft Palette of Middle-American Suburban Ennui Porn Shoved Into Little Boxes
“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.” — David Lynch Daniel Elkin: I knew my early 1980s North Dallas suburbia like Jeffrey Beaumont knew his Lumberton in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. Raised middle-class and white, there among so much concrete and small trees with […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 2, 80-61
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part 1, 100-81
People tend to reminisce about long gone eras, arguing that things were always better way back when. But when it comes to comics, there’s no denying that the 21st century has seen the medium explode in unprecedented and unpredictable ways. For many people, that has come primarily in the form of the advent of the […]