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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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Book Review: Ocultos by Laura Pérez
By Darcy Staniforth |
Our material and natural world is sometimes interrupted or even complimented by the supernatural. Sometimes these incidents are a one-time ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald and Mickey in Metropolis and Faust by Francesco Artibani, Paolo Mottura, Carlo Chendi, and Luciano Bottaro
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics continues their line of Disney adaptations of classic tales with this pairing of Metropolis and Faust. The comics are ...
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Book Review: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet
By Greg Hammond |
In the opening of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet, there isn’t much road to ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Mystery of the Swamp” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Mystery of the Swamp" is Volume 3 in Fantagraphics's The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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Book Review: Elise and the New Partisans by Dominique Grange and Tardi
By Steve Geise |
Shortly after a young pop singer arrives in 1950s Paris to find fame, she becomes aware of the political crisis ...
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Book Review: Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell
By Kent Conrad |
The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch, is one of the most famous pieces of art in the history ...
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Book Review: What We Mean By Yesterday, Vol. 1 by Benjamin Marra
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics continues its streak of high-quality graphic art for adult audiences with What We Mean By Yesterday, Vol. 1 by ...
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Book Review: Iris: A Novel for Viewers by Lo Hartog van Banda and Thé Tjong-Khing
By Steve Geise |
Iris wants to be a pop star. Toiling away at the bottom rungs of the entertainment industry, she seizes a ...
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Book Review: Donald Duck: The 90th Anniversary Collection
By Kent Conrad |
Donald Duck is an interesting character, because he's a good guy. Only his inflated ego drives him to do bad ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 3: In the Days of the Rockets!
By Kent Conrad |
Comics does not need to mean superheroes. In America, it mostly does, but in the rest of the world, there's ...
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Book Review: Future by Tommi Musturi
By Steve Geise |
If you’re looking for a long-form graphic novel with a linear narrative, this is not the book for you. Instead, ...
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Book Review: Kommix by Charles Burns: A Black Box of Strange
By Rocky London |
Charles Burns’s latest creation, Kommix (Fantagraphics Books), isn’t your run-of-the-mill graphic novel. Picture it as a bizarre mixtape of 80 ...
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Book Review: Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics ventures deep into South America with this new graphic novel anthology featuring short works by 16 Brazilian artists. The ...
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Book Review: The Killing Hole by Steve Niles and Trevor Denham
By Mat Brewster |
Horror hounds are a strange breed. I know because I am one of them. We'll sit through the stupidest stuff ...
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Book Review: Mark Twain’s War Prayer, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
By Shawn Bourdo |
By the end of his life, Mark Twain (1835-1910) had made and lost fortunes many times over. He had suffered ...
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Book Review: Petar & Liza by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja
By Greg Hammond |
In Miroslav Sekulic-Struja’s Petar & Liza, a graphic novel translated by Jenna Allen, the former country of Yugoslavia is awash ...
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Book Review: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
By Steve Geise |
After a seven-year gap, Emil Ferris returns with the eagerly anticipated conclusion of the story of Karen Reyes, a monster-obsessed, ...
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Book Review: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
By Mat Brewster |
With her debut graphic novel, My Name is Monsters, Emil Ferris created something beautiful, and strange, daring, and utterly unique. ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2
By Kent Conrad |
Venus tells a very revealing story - not about its characters or world, but about the world of comic book ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” is Volume 12 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. ...
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Book Review: Blessed Be by Rick Altergott
By Greg Hammond |
In the opening of Rick Altergott’s first graphic novel, Blessed Be, a Flowertown judge sentences Tommy Cottonwood, a local drug ...
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Book Review: How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion by Igort
By Steve Geise |
Italian cartoonist Igort began serializing reports from Ukrainian citizens in the early days of their ongoing invasion by Russian forces. ...
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Book Review: Anna by Mia Oberländer
By Steve Geise |
Anna is tall. Like, freakishly tall, with legs so long she’s able to stride over small mountains in a single ...
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Book Review: Tender by Beth Hetland
By Greg Hammond |
Tender, Beth Hetland’s first graphic novel, is a psychological thriller with a big dose of body horror. It is meant ...
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