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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Book Review: The N-Word of God by Mark Doox
By Greg Hammond |
Two-thirds of the way through Mark Doox’s The N-Word of God, the character Saint Sambo asks if you consider yourself ...
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Book Review: Reading Love and Rockets by Marc Sobel
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their celebration of four decades of Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics presents this comprehensive overview of the first 50 issues ...
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Book Review: Return to Eden by Paco Roca
By Steve Geise |
Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca returns with his most personal graphic novel to date, a nostalgia-soaked ode to the Franco-era Valencia ...
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Book Review: Long Haul by Cullen Bunn and Heath Amodio
By Greg Hammond |
Long Haul is the latest graphic novel from Sandy Carpenter’s Storm King Comics’ Dark & Twisted line which focuses on ...
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Book Review: Hypericum by Manuele Fior
By Steve Geise |
Italian cartoonist Manuele Fior’s latest graphic novel, his sixth picked up for U.S. release by Fantagraphics, follows two distinct stories ...
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Book Review: The Bitter End and Other Stories, Illustrated by Reed Crandall
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics presents yet another unparalleled collection in their EC Artists series with The Bitter End and Other Stories. This time ...
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Book Review: Atlas Artist Edition No. 1: Joe Maneely: “The Raving Maniac” and Other Stories
By Steve Geise |
Before Marvel Comics was Marvel Comics, it was Atlas Comics. Fantagraphics kicks off a new archival series in their ongoing ...
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Book Review: Smoking Kills by Thijs Desmet
By Greg Hammond |
Smoking Kills by Thijs Desmet has a simple premise. Though we don’t know how long he has been in the ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Maharajah Donald” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Maharajah Donald” is Volume 4 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book collects ...
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Book Review: Milky Way by Miguel Vila
By Greg Hammond |
Milky Way by Miguel Vila is a truly exceptional graphic novel for adults who aren’t bothered by artistic nudity and ...
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Book Review: In Search of Gil Scott-Heron by Thomas Mauceri and Seb Piquet
By Steve Geise |
Less a biography than a MacGuffin hunt, writer Thomas Mauceri details his years-long quest to track down and interview the ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 1: Adventures into Terror Volume 1
By Kent Conrad |
The mainstream American comic book is the home of the super-hero. But that was just its final evolution. While the ...
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Book Review: Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness
By Steve Geise |
After a three-year gap, M.S. Harkness returns with her third autobio graphic novel, and first for Fantagraphics. She continues her ...
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Book Review: Monica by Daniel Clowes: Trip the Trauma Fantastic
By Jack Cormack |
In Daniel Clowes’s new graphic novel, Monica (his first in seven years), the titular hero goes on a flippin’ strange ...
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Book Review: Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck in Les Misérables and War and Peace by Giovan Battista Carpi
By Greg Hammond |
Disney presents a new addition to the Fantagraphics series of collected cartoons. In this volume we get both “The Secret ...
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Book Review: Totem by Laura Pérez
By Steve Geise |
In Laura Pérez’s beautiful, bewildering graphic novel, a flashback begets another flashback, unidentified characters drift in and out of the ...
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Book Review: Eden II by K. Wroten
By Steve Geise |
K. Wroten’s sophomore graphic novel is a sprawling, 452-page meditation on the bleak existence faced by the current twenty-something generation. ...
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Book Review: Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas by Paco Roca
By Steve Geise |
This is not a new graphic novel by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca. Instead, it’s a compilation of archival autobiographical comic ...
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Book Review: Starseeds 3 by Charles Glaubitz
By Steve Geise |
By any conventional literary measure, the Starseeds series is bewildering and left so far open to interpretation that it’s difficult ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” is Volume 28 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. It ...
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Book Review: Werewolf Jones & Sons: Deluxe Super Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger
By Mat Brewster |
I am not by any means a prude, but I should have never read Werewolf Jones & Songs: Deluxe Super ...
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Book Review: Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 3
By Kent Conrad |
The third in Fantagraphics reprint series, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney ...
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Book Review: Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow by Joris Chamblain and Fabrizio Petrossi
By Kent Conrad |
Scrooge McDuck is best known from either DuckTales, or from the 1983 Disney Short, "Mickey's Christmas Carol." There he played, ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Operation Galleon Grab by Giorgio Cavazzano
By Kent Conrad |
While never a major draw in the United States, comic book stories starring the main line Disney cartoon characters, Mickey ...
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Book Review: Alison by Lizzy Stewart
By Steve Geise |
Alison is a plain teenager getting by in a small English town, running out the clock on her high school ...
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Book Review: Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris
By Steve Geise |
Natalie Norris was just 16 years old when she was shipped off from the U.S. to France for a summer ...
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Book Review: Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff
By Darcy Staniforth |
Diarist and author Anaïs Nin lived an extraordinary and controversial life. From Henry Miller to John Steinbeck, she had many lovers ...
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Book Review: The Planetoid and Other Stories by Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando
By Steve Geise |
After over 30 volumes in the long-running Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library series, Joe Orlando’s sci-fi stories return to the spotlight ...
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Book Review: Nudism Comes to Connecticut by Susan Schade and Jon Buller
By Steve Geise |
Imagine having a scandalous but fascinating tale buried deep within the branches of your family tree. Then imagine having the ...
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Book Review: Listen, Beautiful Márcia by Marcello Quintanilha
By Steve Geise |
Brazilian favelas typically evoke images of poverty, drugs, and desperation, as most notably explored in the film City of God. ...
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Book Review: Doris Danger: Giant Monsters Amok by Chris Wisnia & Ricky Sprague
By Kent Conrad |
As the American comic book industry developed in the '60s, it became significantly less diverse. Superheroes eventually became, essentially, the ...
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Book Review: Salome’s Last Dance by Daria Tessler
By Mat Brewster |
Portland artist Daria Tessler's second comic book published by Fantagraphics is a short, strange trip that finds influences from such ...
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Book Review: Daughters of Snow and Cinders by Núria Tamarit
By Steve Geise |
When a determined young adventurer sets out into the wilderness in search of gold, she quickly encounters threats from the ...
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Book Review: The Heavy Bright by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A young girl is tasked with a seemingly impossible quest: to hunt down and destroy 999 black eggs closely held ...
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Book Review: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn
By Steve Geise |
Briana Loewinsohn’s debut graphic novel heralds the arrival of an intriguing new talent already operating at a masterful level. Her ...
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Book Review: T*ts & Cl*ts 1972-1987: An Underground, Women-made Comix Gets the Fantagraphics Touch
By Jack Cormack |
Out this month, Tits & Clits 1972-1987 (Fantagraphics Books) compiles for the first time (in a single, handsome volume) all ...
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Book Review: Mickey and Donald: For Whom the Doorbell Tolls
By Steve Geise |
In 1999, a teacher at Disney’s Italian school for cartoonists presented his students with a prompt: select a short story ...
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Book Review: Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Perón by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto and Enrique Breccia
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics continues their series of Alberto Breccia releases with this graphic biography of the polarizing Argentine icon, Eva Perón, popularly ...
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Book Review: Talespin: Flight of the Sky-Raker and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 2
By Kent Conrad |
Disney Afternoon was a staple of after-school procrastination for nearly a decade, from 1990-1997. Several of those years included my ...
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Book Review: Spa by Erik Svetoft
By Mat Brewster |
Swedish writer/illustrator Erik Svetoft's Spa is a Kafkaesque adventure that plunges into a Lynchian nightmare. Set in a high-class, luxury ...
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Book Review: The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot
By Steve Geise |
The latest work from powerhouse French graphic novelist duo Ruppert and Merlot imagines a world much like our own with ...
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Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Dan Watters and Dev Pramanik
By Steve Geise |
The creators of this new graphic novel were faced with three apparent approaches to its production: craft an adaptation of ...
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Comic Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero #299: The Penultimate Issue at IDW Sets up an Exciting Finale
By generaljabbo |
For being the penultimate issue of G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, issue #299 (part four of the “All ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero: Saturday Morning Adventures: The TV Show Comes to Life in This Fun Miniseries
By generaljabbo |
During the 1980s, G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, was seemingly everywhere. What began as a successful toy line ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special by Larry Hama
By generaljabbo |
The 1960s had G.I. Joe, America’s Movable Fighting Man, a series of doll-sized action figures that highlighted all branches of ...
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TV Review: Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book
By Steve Geise |
After 40 years of ongoing publication, the Love & Rockets comic book is long overdue for a celebratory retrospective. Thankfully, ...
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Book Review: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
By Steve Geise |
A young Latina politician runs for and wins office in New York as a virtual unknown, ousting a veteran incumbent ...
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Book Review: The Junction by Norm Konyu
By Steve Geise |
Far too rarely, a graphic novel lands in the market with such an assured sense of style and substance that ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming is Book 35 in the collected volumes of Stan Sakai's long running comic book series and the ...
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Book Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 5
By Gordon S. Miller |
The fifth volume of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection opens with Issue #56, Part 7 of the ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo Origins Volume 01 by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
Over the course of his comic book career, Stan Sakai has become a legend in the industry, winning numerous awards ...
Read More Book Review: Vision & the Scarlet Witch: The Saga of Wanda and Vision
By Gordon S. Miller |
Tying in with Disney+'s WandaVision, Marvel has repackaged some of the duo's adventures in Vision & the Scarlet Witch: The ...
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Book Review: Star Wars: The Complete Classic Newspaper Comics, Vol. 3
By Gordon S. Miller |
IDW/The Library of American Comics' presentation of the Star Wars newspaper comics concludes with Volume 3, which presents nine stories ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 7 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
As stated in my previous reviews of this book series, John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita by Tipton, Tipton, Shasteen, Hernandez, Nieto
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the Star Trek franchise, there is a parallel universe dubbed the "Mirror Universe" where the evil Terran Empire, which ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 6 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
As stated in my previous reviews of this book series, "John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions ...
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Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 7: 1959-1960 by Milton Caniff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988. The strip's titular hero served as an ...
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Book Review: James Bond: SPECTRE: The Complete Comic Strip Collection
By Gordon S. Miller |
Having previously collected and released the James Bond newspaper comic-strip adventures that ran in British newspapers, including in Omnibus Volumes ...
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Books Review: Star Trek: New Visions Issue #3 “Cry Vengeance” and Issue #4 “Made Out of Mudd” by John Byrne
By Rons Reviews |
When I was growing up two of the things that I was really into were comic books and Star Trek. ...
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Comic Book Review: Motor Crush #1 by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Katelyn Powers Last year, a team of creatives re-designed a popular DC Comics heroine known as Batgirl. (Note: ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: Gold Key Archives, Volume 2
By Gordon S. Miller |
On its way to becoming a multimedia franchise, Star Trek first entered the world of comics by way of Gold Key, ...
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Book Review: Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume Three: 1971-1974, Edited by Dean Mullaney
By Gordon S. Miller |
Volume Three of the Library of American Comics' Eisner Award-winning, four-part collection of Russ Manning's complete run of Tarzan newspaper ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 1 & Issue #3 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions of the Original Series Enterprise crew in the form of ...
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Book Review: Weird Fantasy, Volume 1: Glossy Reprint of Classic SF Comic
By Kent Conrad |
EC Comics holds a special place in comic book history. After all, it was EC comics in particular that were ...
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Book Review: Max Steel, Volume 2: Hero Overload by B. Clay Moore & Alfa Robbi
By Todd Karella |
Originally based on a line of toys produced by Mattel, Max Steel became an animated series made for television. Just ...
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Book Review: Snowpiercer Vol. 1 & 2 by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette
By Steve Geise |
This French comic is currently receiving renewed international attention thanks to its use as the source material for a new ...
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Book Review: Captain Midnight: Volume 1: On the Run by Joshua Williamson and Fernando Dagnino
By Steve Geise |
A patriotic Nazi-fighting U.S. superhero who disappeared in the 1940s suddenly appears in the present day, seemingly not a day ...
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Wolverine: Origin DVD Review: The Best There Is at What He Does.
By Steve Geise |
Ever wonder about how Wolverine got his start? So did the rest of the Marvel Comics Universe and its readers, ...
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Astonishing X-Men Blu-ray Collection Review: Joss Whedon Teams Up with Marvel Superheroes
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released under the Marvel Knights Animation banner, the Astonishing X-Men Collection Blu-ray presents the four motion comics adapted from the ...
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Comic Book Review: Bob Howard, Plumber of the Unknown Issue #4 by Rafael Nieves and Dan Dougherty
By Cinema Sentries |
Released in August of 2012 to coincide with the annual Wizard World Chicago Comic Convention, the fourth issue of Bob ...
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Astonishing X-Men: Torn DVD Review: More Astonishing Motion, Less Astonishing Story
By Steve Geise |
Continuing the Astonishing X-Men motion comics saga initiated in previous DVDs Gifted and Dangerous, this latest disc covers issues 13-18 ...
Read More Book Review: Conan Volume 11: Road of Kings: By Crom! Roy Thomas Delivers
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chad Derdowski The 11th volume in Dark Horse’s Conan series finds Robert E. Howard’s most famous creation commanding ...
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