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Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock

Watchmen Chapter 1 is a very faithful adaptation of the first six comics in the twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) ...
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Book Review: The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume by Attilio Micheluzzi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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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