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

Doubling and singling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illustration is a word that usually implies instrumentality, a visual work that’s auxiliary to something else. More broadly, you might … More