What would it be like?

This beautiful and moving short comic by Xulia Vicente (published by Shortbox, natch) is allegorical and speculative in equal measure. … More

Plausibly grim

I found my way to the Snowpiercer comics by way of Bong Joon-Ho’s excellent 2013 movie, but they are legendary … More

This is the second cook-book that I’ve read simply because it happens to be a comic published by Shortbox. Like … More

Bryan Talbot is a national treasure of British Comics, with a career that stretches from his underground Chester P. Hackenbush … More

I’m still undecided what I think the precise aesthetic or narrative effects are of using anthropomorphic animals as characters in … More

This one-shot comic, which is the first book I’ve pulled at random out of what is to be the last … More

Having been interested in comics for a very long time, I have of course been aware of manga. Until now, … More

Reading the second volume of Rebellion’s sumptuous collected Nemesis The Warlock has been a real pleasure. It hasn’t been a … More

I will freely admit my ignorance on all matters bandes dessinées. My first comics were Asterix and Tintin in French … More

Imagine a world in which the tasks which once provided gainful employment to millions were increasingly carried out by automated … More

I don’t know that it’s an intentional parallel, but the protagonist of Emma Hunsinger’s She Would Feel The Same experiences … More

I’ve never before re-read Nemesis the Warlock, unlike most of the other legendary 2000AD strips, so revisiting it in this … More

Well, that’s two ShortBox comics in a row with a cultivated visual naïveté. However, where Núria Martínez’s Outspace is very … More

It’s common for a bunch of artists to collaborate on a series, but Madi (as far as I know) has … More