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Category: Comics

An uncertain consolation

Comic books are an excellent medium for non-fiction. This is not a novel insight—during the Second World War instruction manuals … More

Mathieu Burniat, Mysteries of the Quantum Universe, Sarah-Louise Raillard, Thibault Damour

Clever joy

Nuria Martinez cultivates a self-consciously naïve cartooning style, but her sophistication as an illustrator, and her narrative facility as a … More

Núria Martínez, Outspace, Shortbox Comics

Built in the telling

A ‘silent’ comic, which is to say a wordless comic, relies on the grammar of sequential art. This is a … More

A Land Called Tarot, Gael Bertrand

A museum of Tom Kaczynski

Behind their classically laid-out, commercially styled covers (complete with old-school colophons to tickle the collector’s fancy), the first two…

Cartoon Dialectics, Fieldmouse Press, Solrad, Tom Kaczynski, Uncivilized Books

The city is not a city

A city is a complex organism. An ‘urbanist’ is a kind of sociologist, which suggests that to those who make … More

Allissa Chan, Interim, Shortbox Comics

Perfectly lonely

This spectacular and lavish volume from Chris Ware is the second of his beautiful large books that I’ve read. Rusty … More

Chris Ware, Rusty Brown

Elegant dismemberment

Zainab Akhtar at ShortBox is really the acme of independent comics editors: she just gets it. Everything she puts out … More

Beneath the Dead Oak Tree, Emily Carroll, Shortbox Comics, Zainab Akhtar

Eyes the same size as her stomach

Luchie (as illustrator and cartoonist Lucie Bryon likes to call herself) was apparently blessed with extremely large eyes as a … More

Food Baby, Luchie, Lucie Bryon, Shortbox Comics

A book to sort you out apiece

A viral disease is sweeping the world, killing indiscriminately. Well, nearly. Its fatal impact is concentrated in a particular minority, … More

Kate Charlesworth, Myriad Editions, Sensible Footwear, Sensible Footwear: a girl's guide

Abstract affective allegory

Like all the books published by ShortBox, Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s After Laughter is a beautiful object, printed to a high … More

After Laughter, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Shortbox Comics

Habitable insouciance

I haven’t seen a great deal of James Stokoe’s work, but what I have seen has been right up my … More

James Stokoe, Shortbox Comics, Sobek

Good hair days

I keep threatening to cut my hair short. Spouse forbids it. Sometimes though, it feels like such a hassle wearing … More

Ariel Ries, Ariel Slamet Ries, Lion Forge, Witchy

No fable

Once you’ve made the hole the central metaphor of a lengthy work of fiction, you’re going to have to resign … More

Black Hole, Charles Burns, creator owned comics

Animal friends

Putting animal heads on the characters in cartoons is a widespread and long-established device—as I very recently noted with respect … More

anthropomorphic comics, creator owned comics, furry art, Garbage Night, Jen Lee, Nobrow, Vacancy

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