Pete Toms has swiftly become one of the most interesting and remarkable comics creators operating online. His work is playful and perplexing, offering profound, hilarious commentary on internet culture and social media. After reviewing Toms’ recent masterpiece The Linguists, Nick Hanover set up an e-mail interview with Toms about his personal body horror nightmares, his coloring […]
The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s: Part Four, 40-21
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 […]
Electric Candyland Brings Heart to Mathematical Style
Comics has had a number of Wild Wests over the years, frontiers where rules are broken or ignored and outlaws flee the mainstream to carve out new niches. The ’60s had the comix crowd, the ’80s had the small press boom and the advent of the internet has brought the webcomic, a frontier that grows […]
Erotic Agents, Multiverses and Pop Assassins: 10 Comics We Loved This Year
We’re a bunch of culture geeks here at Loser City, which means we love nothing so much as conformity, lists, and faux definitive rankings of things. With that in mind, this month we’re bringing you our Loser City Best Ofs, lists on lists on lists of our picks for top video games, comics, and everything […]
Anatomy of a Page: Reid Psaltis’ Kingdom/Order Pt. 2 Page 7
Comics are a visual medium, but so often criticism of the medium hinges on narrative, ignoring or minimizing the visual storytelling and unique structures that make comics so different from cinema and photography. We’ve decided to change that up with a feature in Loser City that we’re calling Anatomy of a Page, in which we explore pages and […]
Reviews in the Panel Panopticon: Study Group Extravaganza
In Panel Panopticon, Nick Hanover and friends talk about the comics they’ve picked up for the week, good, bad or otherwise. Most of the releases I picked up this week were either middle issues or just didn’t fully grab my attention, so fuck it, I’m dedicating this week’s Panel Panopticon to some newer stuff on […]
It’s All Bullshit: Pete Toms’ On Hiatus Pt. 2
Sometimes the relentless grind of stupidity and negativity and sheer stubborn regression makes me give up on comics for a bit. I look around on the internet, I see people being assholes and everyone complaining about how bad comics are these days and I feel like I’m stuck in an infinite loop of surreality, where […]