This sweet-natured, simple tale of friendship and love is as straightforward as comics get – except that it’s completely backwards. … More
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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
A moment
This small, landscape-format book contains a lot of landscape, and a lot of episodes in which people engage with landscape. … More
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
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
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
Life grooves
Jaime Hernandez often uses techniques that seem cinematic; in fact they are no more proper to cinema than they are … More
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
Mutually constituted histories
British commercial comics have always been an idiosyncratic little world, in comparison to the vast American scene with its division … More
Between mnemonic quanta
The principal characters in Jaime Hernandez’s long-running Locas series are, I guess, the same age as him, which is to … More
A positive view from the doldrums
I came across this book on the website of Lib Ed, formerly the Libertarian Teachers Association. It is one of … More
Thoughtful speculation
This is a small-format, short, perfectly-formed science-fiction story. Its basic premise would probably be quite implausible technically, if it was … More
Stoke-on-huh?
Sam Wade’s Stoke (published by the fabulous ShortBox) is set, presumably, in Stoke. Given that the place-name element ‘stoke’ means … More
Thrills and white poppies
It’s subtly positioned and easy to miss, but beneath the volume number, and below Rebellion’s logo on the spine, on … More
