Book Review: The Cabbie: Definitive Edition Vols. 1 & 2 by Marti
By Steve Geise |
A lone wolf taxi driver takes the law into his own hands as he patrols the bleak streets of 1980s ...
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Book Review: Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally published in 2001 and spun off from his Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, Eddie Muller's Dark ...
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Book Review: Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
By Steve Geise |
Suzanne Collins continues her expansion of the Hunger Games mythology with this dive into the backstory of Haymitch Abernathy. If ...
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Book Review: Skin by Sabien Clement and Mieke Versyp
By Steve Geise |
Casting about for purpose in the aftermath of becoming an empty nester, Rita impulsively signs up to be a nude ...
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Book Review: The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s Mad Inspired Satirical Comics by John Benson
By Gordon S. Miller |
Debuting in 1952, Mad is one of the most influential American magazines of the 20th Century. Although it dealt in ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga – The Art of Guardians of the Galaxy by Marie Javins
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Guardians of the Galaxy is the ninth release in the 24-book ...
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Book Review: Lost Marvels No.1: Tower of Shadows
By Joe Garcia III |
Lost Marvels No.1 Tower of Shadows features the work of some of comicdom’s finest and best-known talents. Names like Len ...
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Book Review: TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of World Cinema by Alicia Malone
By Davy |
I know it isn't always easy to engage in international cinema, especially because of subtitles. However, if you don't take ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Terror of the Beagle Boys” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Terror of the Beagle Boys” is Volume 10 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. ...
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Book Review: Santos Sisters, Volume 1 by Greg & Fake
By Darcy Staniforth |
Being a woman can be really challenging. Some days you and your sister just need to go to the beach ...
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Book Review: Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson
By Steve Geise |
“You’re an odd duck, which is actually a remarkable thing.” This is how Betty’s drug dealer describes her early in ...
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Book Review: Goes Like This by J. Crane
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics has published Goes Like This by Jordan Crane. It is a splendid artistic compilation for adults and older teens ...
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Book Review: Beat It, Rufus by Noah Van Sciver
By Steve Geise |
Rufus Baxter never found fame as a rock star, but as he approaches old age he’s still striving toward his ...
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Book Review: The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film by John Walsh
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the Introduction to The Official Story of the Film, author John Walsh states Carol Reed's The Third Man “influenced ...
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Book Review: Murderburg by Carol Lay
By Steve Geise |
Carol Lay’s second graphic novel for Fantagraphics collects a series of vignettes about the residents and visitors inhabiting a fictional ...
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Book Review: John Cuneo’s Good Intentions
By Darcy Staniforth |
The frantically flowing pen strokes and exaggerated subjects of John Cuneo are nothing new to readers of publications like The ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Pixilated Parrot” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Pixelated Parrot” is Volume 9 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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Book Review: World Within the World: Collected Minicomix & Short Works 2010-2022 by Julia Gfrörer
By Steve Geise |
Julia Gfrörer’s new hardcover collects 30 of her short works exploring themes of sexuality and horror through the ages. She ...
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Book Review: Prince Valiant Vol. 29: 1993-1994 by John Cullen Murphy and Cullen Murphy
By Steve Geise |
Prince Valiant and friends continue their globetrotting wanderlust in the latest collection of two years of Sunday comic strips. With ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios’ The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Marie Javins
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the eighth release in the ...
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Book Review: Joe Galaxy by Massimo Mattioli
By Greg Hammond |
Massimo Mattioli was an Italian artist and cartoonist (1943-2019) whose latest collection comes to us from Fantagraphics and features Joe ...
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Book Review: Jimmy! The Comic Art of James Swinnerton
By Steve Geise |
James Swinnerton created a variety of comic strips in the first half of the 20th century, with his longest-running strip ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Frozen Gold” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Frozen Gold” is Volume 2 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book collects ...
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Book Review: The Worlds of Wes Anderson: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films by Adam Woodward
By Gordon S. Miller |
In his Introduction, The Worlds of Wes Anderson author Adam Woodward states that this book “is not intended to be ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: The Dark World by Marie Javins & Stuart Moore
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: The Dark World is the seventh release in the 24-book ...
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Book Review: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick by John Bleasdale
By David Wangberg |
Terrence Malick is one of the most revered – and divisive – directors in cinematic history. Whether it’s in his ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 4: War Comics Vol. 1
By Kent Conrad |
Before they more or less solidified as an superheroes only medium, American comics were always trend chasing, finding something new ...
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Book Review: Macanudo: The Way of the Penguin by Liniers
By Steve Geise |
Argentinian cartoonist Liniers returns with his third Fantagraphics collection of his ongoing comic strip, Macanudo. As always, the full-color strip ...
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Book Review: War on Gaza by Joe Sacco
By Greg Hammond |
It is highly doubtful that anybody’s mind will be changed too dramatically after experiencing Joe Sacco’s War on Gaza, but ...
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Book Review: Disney Comics: Around the World in One Hundred Years: Deluxe Edition
By Steve Geise |
While The Walt Disney Company has been around since 1923, the comics didn’t get their start until Mickey Mouse’s first ...
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Book Review: Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 1 by Milo Manara
By Greg Hammond |
It is the end of summer in 1592, and the great graphic novelist Milo Manara imagines the young artist Michelangelo ...
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Book Review: Life Sucks by Jessica Abel
By Greg Hammond |
Life Sucks is a vampire drama written and drawn by Jessica Abel (La Perdida), Gabe Soria (Midnight Arcade), and Warren ...
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Book Review: Godzilla: The Official Cookbook by Kayce Baker
By Darcy Staniforth |
While Godzilla is definitely known for being a creature who causes destruction, what about the idea that he can be ...
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Book Review: Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk
By Steve Geise |
Barbara Shermund was a pioneering female cartoonist and feminist in an era when both were exceedingly rare. Twice married but ...
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Book Review: The Complete I, René Tardi, P.O.W. by Jacques Tardi
By Steve Geise |
Jacques Tardi grew up hearing about his father’s life as a soldier during World War II, particularly his years spent ...
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Book Review: The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen by Jeff Bond
By Davy |
There were so many reasons why the legendary film and television producer and director Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was one of ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios
By Darcy Staniforth |
Since 1966, Star Trek has been taking its viewers along as Starfleet has explored "Space, the final frontier." In 2017, Star ...
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Book Review: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet
By David Wangberg |
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is one of the greatest post-apocalyptic survival stories to come out in the last 20 years ...
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Book Review: Jessica Farm by Josh Simmons: Let’s Weird Jessica to Death
By Rocky London |
Jessica Farm, by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics Books), is an unconventional and sprawling journey through a landscape where nightmare and absurdity ...
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Book Review: Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen
By Steve Geise |
Much like Seinfeld, Olivier Schrauwen’s latest graphic novel is a book about nothing. As described in his preface, he supposedly ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Trick or Treat” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Trick or Treat” is Volume 13 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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Book Review: Innocence and Seduction: The Art of Dan DeCarlo: Expanded Edition by Bill Morrison
By Steve Geise |
Dan DeCarlo is best known as the defining artist of Archie Comics, but he pursued other artistic endeavors throughout his ...
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Book Review: Disney In-Between: The Lost Years 1966–1986 by Stephen Anderson
By Sombrero Grande |
Sometimes, you have to fall before you can rise. That’s the premise floated by Stephen Anderson’s new book, Disney In-Between: ...
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Book Review: Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher by Thomas Stemrich and Patrick Keck
By Steve Geise |
“I guess if I was asleep and something bit me real soft…well, I couldn’t really be mad about that, could ...
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Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories
By Joe Garcia III |
Splatter up! It's midnight and the moon is high in the night sky. Most folks are sound asleep but not ...
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Book Review: Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
By Shawn Bourdo |
This new book is an unauthorized and unofficial study of one of the most universally admired directors to ever put ...
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Book Review Godzilla: The Encyclopedia by Shinji Nishikawa
By Gordon S. Miller |
Setting aside the book is already in need of an update with the release of last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus ...
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Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock
By Greg Hammond |
The twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) comics series was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Brandon Vietti ...
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Book Review: The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume by Attilio Micheluzzi
By Steve Geise |
I consider myself to be fairly well versed in the world’s finest cartoonists, and yet prior to this graphic novel, ...
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Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories, Illustrated by Jack Davis
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you are a comic reader and I mention Tales From the Crypt to you, I’m sure some very clear ...
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