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.
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‘Goblin Girl’ and the Fiction/ Nonfiction Dichotomy
Moa Romanova's "semi-auto-bio" graphic fiction, Goblin Girl, explores the dating world with a mysterious mix of art and influences.
‘Sports Is Hell’ Narrows the Field to Identity Politics
Ben Passmore's Sports Is Hell is an apocalyptic parody of racism in US sports and politics.
Rikke Villadsen’s ‘Cowboy’ Is Warped
Rikke Villadsen's graphic fiction, Cowboy, is an aggressively peculiar take on an already aggressively peculiar genre.
What’s to Be Believed in Yoshiharu Tsuge’s ‘The Man Without Talent’?
Tsuge's narrator's mustache is no more convincing a disguise than Superman's Clark Kent glasses—which is the paradoxical point in The Man Without Talent.
gg’s Graphic Fiction, ‘Constantly’, Knows Where the Monsters Go
Where gg's I'm Not Here found its force in ambiguity and the maybe-fantastical, Constantly is comparatively straightforward in its portrayal of the protagonist's sometimes literal battle with her own psyche.
Who’s He in Connor Willumsen’s ‘Bradley of Him’?
Connor Willumsen keeps the narrative in his graphic fiction book, Bradley of Him, as lean and off-balance as his maybe-deranged main character.
Would the 2,000-Year-Old Zhuangzi Approve of Tsai’s ‘The Way of Nature’?
A Yoda-proportioned philosopher provides a humorous undercurrent in C. C. Tsai's adaptation of the Daoist text, The Way of Nature.
Ana Galvañ’s ‘Press Enter to Continue’ Gets Weird with the Storyboard Format
Is the ghost-child forming pixel-by-pixel in Ana Galvañ's Press Enter to Continue a repressed memory, a government-induced hallucination, or something weirder still?
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.