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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

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

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

Questionable Comics: Daniel Chabon and Paul Allor

July 19, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Paul Allor

In today’s Questionable Comics we talk to an editor and a writer/letterer. Up first is Daniel Chabon, who edits a number of series for Dark Horse, including the new Margaret Atwood, Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain series Angel Catbird, which is the feature length debut of the celebrated novelist. What current projects are you working on? Mostly creator-owned […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: comics, Daniel Chabon, Dark Horse, indie comics, Past the Last Mountain, Paul Allor, Tet

Rozi Hathaway’s Njálla is Beautiful but Lacks a Strong Narrative

June 29, 2016 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Njálla Rozi Hathaway

Rozi Hathaway’s Njálla is a refreshing look at Scandinavian lore, considering our most recent widespread children’s text about the area is Frozen. While Frozen features a sea of white people, Hathaway writes about a legend of Northern Europe that focuses on the lifestyle of the Sámi people as they lived hundreds of years ago. The […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, folklore, indie comics, Njálla, Rozi Hathaway

Boys and Girls in America is Verbatim Theatre for Comics

June 22, 2016 By Nick Hanover Leave a Comment

Boys and Girls in America Dave Tomaine Gustavo Magalhaes

Though it’s not as active now, the verbatim theatre movement of the early ’00s was more than an interesting hybrid of old and new media, it was one of the most effective styles of social commentary in art. Works like The Laramie Project functioned as rawer, more direct confrontations of the issues plays like Angels in America also […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Boys and Girls in America, Carolina Maia, Cavedomain, comics, Dave Tomaine, Gustavo Magalhaes, indie comics

Questionable Comics: Andy Warner and Pete Toms

June 21, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Questionable Comics Pete Toms

Today’s Questionable Comics pairs two of our favorite people in indie comics. Up first is Andy Warner, one of the geniuses behind the Irene anthology and a regular contributor to The Nib. What current projects are you working on? The book version of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects (to be published by Picador in October, 2016). I’m just […]

Filed Under: Features, Interviews Tagged With: Andy Warner, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, comics, indie comics, Irene, Pete Toms, Questionable Comics

Red Ants Underneath: Nick Drnaso’s Beverly is a Soft Palette of Middle-American Suburban Ennui Porn Shoved Into Little Boxes

May 11, 2016 By LoserCityBoss Leave a Comment

Nick Drnaso Beverly

“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 […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: art comics, Beverly, comics, David Lynch, Drawn & Quarterly, indie comics, Nick Drnaso

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