Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 8: SNAFU: The Funniest Magazine in the World!
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics continues its phenomenal series in collaboration with Marvel Comics by publishing its eighth entry in the Atlas Comics series, ...
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Book Review: Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 06
By Kent Conrad |
This is the latest of the Fantagraphics hardcover collections of reprinted Disney comics based on the block of cartoons that ...
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Book Review: The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat by R. Crumb
By Gordon S. Miller |
According to the book's copyright page, “The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat collects R. Crumb's major Fritz the ...
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Book Review: Petra Chérie by Attilio Micheluzzi
By Steve Geise |
Collected in English for the first time, Fantagraphics’ second Micheluzzi book compiles the complete serialized adventures of Petra De Karlowitz, ...
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Book Review: Winnie the Pooh: The Hundred Acre Wood Comic Collection: Volume 1
By Steve Geise |
A.A. Milne’s silly old bear has been a comic book star around the world since 1977, but the comics are ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Christmas in Duckburg” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Christmas in Duckburg” is Volume 21 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics Publishing has released another beautiful anthology with Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics The collection contains Girl Comics ...
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Book Review: Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum and Jon Buller
By Steve Geise |
In 1895, intrepid adventurer Joshua Slocum attempted to sail solo around the world, determined to become the first person to ...
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Book Review: Shadows of the Sea by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A chance meeting of two grief-stricken social outcasts leads to a healing journey and hope for a new future. Cathy ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” is Volume 29 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney ...
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Book Review: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish
By Steve Geise |
After two lavishly painted graphic novels, Parrish takes a step back to present an archival collection of short stories rendered ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Goofy: “Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Goofy “Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks” collects stories from Super Goof #1-6 plus select ...
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Book Review: Nocturnos by Laura Pérez
By Steve Geise |
In Laura Pérez’s ethereal third U.S. graphic novel, characters and colors swirl through a nighttime setting with no clear dividing ...
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Book Review: Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West by Bill Griffith
By Joe Garcia III |
Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West, A Graphic Biography by His Great-Grandson finds cartoonist Bill Griffith taking a ...
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Book Review: Witchcraft by Sole Otero
By Steve Geise |
Sole Otero’s second release from Fantagraphics is, in a word, astonishing. Her puzzle box of a tale centers on a ...
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Book Review: Shiver As You Read!: Atlas Comics Library No. 6
By Kent Conrad |
I do not know if the introduction of the censorious Comics Code really ruined American comics. It came in around ...
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Book Review: The Spawn of Venus and Other Stories, Illustrated by Wallace Wood
By Steve Geise |
If you’ve been following along with Fantagraphics’ ongoing releases in their EC Comics Artists Library series, this title might seem ...
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Book Review: The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho
By Gordon S. Miller |
As seen on the cover of Chip Kidd and Michael Cho's The Avengers in the Veracity Trap goes back to ...
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Book Review: Death in Trieste by Jason
By Steve Geise |
Veteran Norwegian cartoonist Jason returns with an all-new collection of three short graphic stories rendered in his impeccably clear line ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold” is Volume 1 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. ...
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Book Review: Buff Soul by Moa Romanova
By Steve Geise |
When Swedish cartoonist Moa Romanova gets the chance to accompany her aspiring rock-star friends on their mini U.S. tour, their ...
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Book Review: Lost Marvels No. 2: Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle
By Kent Conrad |
Howard Chaykin is a comic book artist who came to his powers when the industry was in flux. He started ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” is Volume 19 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney ...
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Book Review: Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2 by Milo Manara
By Greg Hammond |
It is now the summer of 1606, and 14 years have passed since Caravaggio first arrived in Rome in the ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver As You Read!
By Greg Hammond |
Seattle-based Fantagraphics Publishing has released another beautiful anthology with Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver As You Read! The collection ...
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Book Review: Brain Damage by Shintaro Kago
By Steve Geise |
Kago returns with a collection of four unrelated short manga stories originally published in Japan in 2017. The stories all ...
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Book Review: Raging Clouds by Yudori
By Steve Geise |
While I read my fair share of manga and manhwa, I don’t particularly enjoy much of its mainstream output due ...
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Book Review: The Idris File by Dix
By Steve Geise |
When a quiet teen boy and his mother move to a remote seaside town in Wales, they enter a gloomy ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 5: Police Action
By Kent Conrad |
Fantagraphics Books has been releasing, over the last two years, several comics series from Atlas Comics. That was the precursor ...
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Book Review: The Devil’s Grin: Book One by Alex Graham
By Steve Geise |
What’s black and white and red all over? Alex Graham’s second graphic novel for Fantagraphics, her follow-up to the acclaimed ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” is Volume 17 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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Book Review: Night Drive by Richard Sala: Inkshot
By Rock London |
I first saw illustrator Richard Sala’s work behind glass—enshrined in a columbarium niche at the Chapel of the Chimes in ...
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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: 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: 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: 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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