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Category: 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

Beautiful, beautiful violence

Many comics today feature anthropomorphic animals, or animal-headed humans, as do animated cartoons, prose fiction and other media. Anyone writing … More

anthropomorphic comics, Bryan Talbot, furry art, Grandville

A dark, involute surface

Monstress is pretty much the only commercial comics series I’m following, other than 2000AD and its associated properties. I enjoy … More

Image Comics, Marjorie Liu, Monstress, Monstress Vol 4, Monstress Volume 4, Sana Takeda

Insightfully commonplace

I was initially underwhelmed by Michelle Theodore’s Cavity. Where were the insights? Where was the peek into an unfamiliar experience? … More

Cavity, creator owned comics, Michelle Theodore, Shortbox Comics

Dwelling together

A labyrinth can be a lonely place. In a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, Asterion, the most famous of … More

creator owned comics, Lissa Treiman, Minötaar, Shortbox Comics

Complex simplicity

This sweet-natured, simple tale of friendship and love is as straightforward as comics get – except that it’s completely backwards. … More

creator owned comics, Hana Chatani, Pass the Baton, Shortbox Comics

A fable for the devouring

This book smells great. It’s a slim, perfect-bound volume, in a tall, narrow, custom format, printed to a very high … More

Ariel Ries, creator owned comics, Cry Wolf Girl, Shortbox Comics

A moment

This small, landscape-format book contains a lot of landscape, and a lot of episodes in which people engage with landscape. … More

At the edge of the stream at dusk, Dear Korea, Garbage Night, Jen Lee, Shortbox Comics

Other truths in the shadows

I got stressed out reading Logicomix. About halfway through the book there is a discussion of Russell’s paradox, a self-contradictory … More

Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna, Apostolos Doxiadis, Bertrand Russell, biography, Christos H. Papadimitriou, logic, Logicomix, mathematics

A pamphlet in disguise

A book is illustrated if it has pictures in it. A history is illustrated if the events it constructs are … More

An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking, Brad Evans, Carl Thompson, Chris Mackenzie, Henry A. Giroux, Inko, Michiru Morikawa, New Internationalist, Portraits of Violence, Robert Brown, Sean Michael Wilson, Yen Quach

So long and thanks for all the comics

  The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast against … More

Alan Moore, alternative comics, creator owned comics, Kevin O'Neill, Knockabout Comics, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Tempest

Life grooves

Jaime Hernandez often uses techniques that seem cinematic; in fact they are no more proper to cinema than they are … More

alternative comics, Comics, creator owned comics, Hoppers, Is This How You See Me?, Jaime Hernandez, Locas, Love & Rockets, Love and Rockets

A gently chromatic narrative

The Island is a short and beautiful allegory. It’s a simple exploration of solitude, of withdrawal, of re-engagement, and of … More

creator owned comics, Joy San, one shots, Shortbox Comics, single issue comics, The Island

Mutually constituted histories

British commercial comics have always been an idiosyncratic little world, in comparison to the vast American scene with its division … More

2000AD, British comics, Carlos Ezquerra, comic review, comics reviews, Dredd, John Wagner, Judge Dredd, Kev Walker, review

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