The Strange and the Disturbingly Familiar in Sci-Fi Graphic Fiction, ‘Peepers’
Even the scenery in sci-fi graphic fiction ‘Peepers’ looks like the lucid dreams of a Fauvist painter on acid.
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‘Perramus: The City and Oblivion’ Depicts Argentina’s Violent Anti-Communist Purge
Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia's graphic novel Peraramus: The City and Oblivion, is an absurd and existential odyssey of a political dissident who can't remember his name.
‘Dancing After TEN’ Graphic Memoir Will Move You
Art dances with loss in the moving double-memoir by comics artists Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber, Dancing After TEN.
Political Cartoonist Art Young Was an Aficionado of all Things Infernal
Fantagraphics' new edition of Inferno takes Art Young's original Depression-era critique to the Trump White House -- and then drags it all to Hell.
You Become the Watcher in Eric Haven’s ‘Cryptoid’
In his latest work, Cryptoid, Eric Haven takes an idiosyncratically weird approach to the horror genre of the Weird to produce a hybrid graphic novella that belongs to no genre but his own.
Rikke Villadsen’s ‘Cowboy’ Is Warped
Rikke Villadsen's graphic fiction, Cowboy, is an aggressively peculiar take on an already aggressively peculiar genre.
Jaime Hernandez’s ‘Tonta’, Hit Men, and High School Shenanigans
Jaime Hernandez conveys an exuberance and vitality in his characters that make them easy to relate to and sympathize with. This is no less so in his latest graphic novel, Tonta.
Compelling Grotesquery in Graphic Novel ‘Vivisectionary’
In Kate Lacour's graphic novel of imagined medical oddities, Vivisectionary, the viewer is the main character and the images the deranged antagonist.
It All Goes Sideways in Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore’s ‘BTTM FDRS’
Graphic fiction BTTM FDRS drags up our culture's biggest, ugliest globs of unconscious sewage and spreads it across a white page for us to see and acknowledge.
Inés Estrada’s ‘Alienation’: Virtual Reality via Comics Grids
Inés Estrada's disturbingly plausible imagination effectively beams Alienation's dystopic future into readers' heads via the antiquated analog technology of ink and paper.
Graphic Fiction ‘Angola Janga’ Brings Forth the History of a Kingdom of Fugitives
Poignant motifs travel through Marcelo D'Salete's graphic novel of Brazil's Angola Janga, a kingdom of runaway slaves.