‘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.
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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.
Keiler Roberts Creates a Gently Comic, Low-Suspense Universe in Graphic Memoir, Rat Time
Picking up where Chlorine Gardens left off, Keiler Roberts' graphic memoir, Rat Time, wanders artfully and unannounced into memories.
Pussycats, Lesbian Vampires, and the Blood-Splattered Erotica of Emily Carroll’s ‘When I Arrived at the Castle’
There's a lot of yarn for this cat to untangle in Emily Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle.
Michael DeForge’s ‘Brat’ Challenges the Act of Reading Comics
While dimension-deforming environments are normal in cartoon worlds, few wander as far to the edge of pure abstraction—let alone cross it -- as Michael DeForge does in Brat.
Nathan Gelgud’s ‘A House in the Jungle’ Plays with Perception
Nathan Gelgud's image-within-an-image work in his latest, A House in the Jungle, echoes a larger world-within-a-world meta-context.
Zacchilli Sketches the Future One Day at a Time in ‘Space Academy 123’
Mickey Zacchilli's scribbled artistic and literary style undermines expectations.
Michael Comeau’s Winter’s Cosmos Explores the Fringes of the Comics Universe
If Winter's Cosmos is Comeau's Alpha Centauri, I look forward to what fruits his new planets will bear next.
gg’s ‘I’m Not Here’ Is One of the Richest and Gently Disturbing Graphic Novels I’ve Read in Years
In gg's graphic memoir, I'm Not Here, we travel with the protagonist, suffering the same confusions that define her life.