Michael DeForge’s ‘Heaven No Hell’ Delivers on Its Promise
Artistic evolution alone cannot explain what is found within Michael DeForge’s Heaven No Hell.
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Shigeru Mizuki’s ‘Tono Monogatari’ Gives Readers Immersive Storytelling with a Personal Touch
In his adaptation of okai stories, ‘Tono Monogatari’, manga artist and historian Shigeru Mizuki is at once narrator, illustrator, reader, and participant, explaining the stories’ connections to Japanese legend and belief.
Are Marjane Satrapi’s Works Comics or Graphic Novels?
Marjane Satrapi is a complicated woman living and working at the intersection of many overlapping identity factors, and her books Persepolis and Embroideries provide us different facets through which to view this complex of relations.
Tommy Siegel’s Comic ‘I Hope This Helps’ Pokes at Social Media Addiction
Jukebox the Ghost's Tommy Siegel discusses his "500 Comics in 500 Days" project, which is now a new book, I Hope This Helps.
Heathen’s Queer Feminist Vikings Are the Heroines Pop Culture Needed
Natasha Alterici's comic series, Heathen, has single-handedly redeemed the disaster that pop culture has been making of Norse mythology.
Isolation Resonates in Tomine’s Ode to Loneliness
Adrian Tomine’s talent in communicating the intimate, minute details of his life serves to make them universal, even more in these times of COVID-19
Collaboration Is Fruitful in Graphic Novel ‘Old Growth’
In their collaborative graphic fiction, Old Growth, Olivo and Bavarksy drew in tandem, trading the panels back and forth, each adding new details, both and neither taking the role of primary artist-writer.
French Comic Artist Blutch Makes an Experiment of ‘Mitchum’
The images in Blutch's Mitchum are technically cartoons, but the style is idiosyncratic, sometimes warping into full abstraction.
Classic Shōjo Today: Moto Hagio’s ‘The Poe Clan’
Moto Hagio's The Poe Clan manga series a gender-fluid melodrama marked by deep psychological trauma.
John Pham’s J&K – It’s a Matter of Perspective
In J&K, John Pham explores perspectives in the psychological sense. Like Picasso, he views things from more than one angle.