Given Hollywood’s propensity for revisiting classic, beloved works and giving them a twist, it’s a little odd to me that no one has rebooted Homeward Bound as a Life After People-style post-apocalyptic work. But that’s okay, because Jen Lee is nicely filling that void with her new work Garbage Night and its predecessor Vacancy. Where Hollywood would likely still […]
Saint, Super Mutants and One Punch Men: The Best Comics of 2015
2015 was a crazy year for comics, but it was also a year of creative explosions, with the small press and digital comics spheres in particular showing off incredible material. Most of our favorite comics this year came from creators working outside the confines of the mainstream industry, with boutique presses like Nobrow and Youth […]
The Stuff of Cities: Victor Hussenot’s The Spectators Brings the City to Life
The first thing you notice about Victor Hussenot’s The Spectators is the color. A blocky face juts out of the cover, composed of myriad other faces, all represented with different colors, unified by bright white cylinder eyes, interrupted only by the blocky man shape’s mirror eye, a spot intended as a way for you to insert your […]
Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City is a Gorgeous, Complicated Biography of a Complicated Man
They get trotted out every Awards Season but does anyone truly like biopics? When they’re not condensing complicated asshole figures into tidy feel-good entertainment packages, they’re too shallow in their focus, honing in on one “milestone” in lives of titans who went through the same disappointing shit as the rest of us at any number of […]
Joey Moonhead is a Normal Teen Boy in Every Way Except for One Crazy Thing…
Nobrow has exploded onto the American comics scene in the last couple of years, and while I picked up a few books from the publisher at CAKE this past June, they’ve still been sitting on my ever-growing pile of comics to read. So when our benevolent dictator Danny Djeljosevic asked if I would like to review Andrew […]