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Book Review: Totem by Laura Pérez

By Steve Geise | Sep 16, 2023

In Laura Pérez’s beautiful, bewildering graphic novel, a flashback begets another flashback, unidentified characters drift in and out of the ...

Book Review: Eden II by K. Wroten

By Steve Geise | Sep 6, 2023

K. Wroten’s sophomore graphic novel is a sprawling, 452-page meditation on the bleak existence faced by the current twenty-something generation. ...

Book Review: Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas by Paco Roca

By Steve Geise | Aug 30, 2023

This is not a new graphic novel by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca. Instead, it’s a compilation of archival autobiographical comic ...

Book Review: Starseeds 3 by Charles Glaubitz

By Steve Geise | Aug 21, 2023

By any conventional literary measure, the Starseeds series is bewildering and left so far open to interpretation that it’s difficult ...

Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” by Carl Barks

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 18, 2023

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” is Volume 28 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. It ...

Werewolf Jones Sons Deluxe Super Fun Comic

Book Review: Werewolf Jones & Sons: Deluxe Super Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger

By Mat Brewster | Aug 15, 2023

I am not by any means a prude, but I should have never read Werewolf Jones & Songs: Deluxe Super ...

Book Review: Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 3

By Kent Conrad | Jul 26, 2023

The third in Fantagraphics reprint series, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney ...

Book Review: Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow by Joris Chamblain and Fabrizio Petrossi

By Kent Conrad | Jul 25, 2023

Scrooge McDuck is best known from either DuckTales, or from the 1983 Disney Short, "Mickey's Christmas Carol." There he played, ...

Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Operation Galleon Grab by Giorgio Cavazzano

By Kent Conrad | Jul 21, 2023

While never a major draw in the United States, comic book stories starring the main line Disney cartoon characters, Mickey ...

Book Review: Alison by Lizzy Stewart

By Steve Geise | Jul 21, 2023

Alison is a plain teenager getting by in a small English town, running out the clock on her high school ...

Book Review: Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris

By Steve Geise | Jul 15, 2023

Natalie Norris was just 16 years old when she was shipped off from the U.S. to France for a summer ...

Anais Nin A Sea of Lies by Leonie Bischoff

Book Review: Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff

By Darcy Staniforth | Jul 6, 2023

Diarist and author Anaïs Nin lived an extraordinary and controversial life. From Henry Miller to John Steinbeck, she had many lovers ...

Book Review: The Planetoid and Other Stories by Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando

By Steve Geise | Jul 1, 2023

After over 30 volumes in the long-running Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library series, Joe Orlando’s sci-fi stories return to the spotlight ...

Book Review: Nudism Comes to Connecticut by Susan Schade and Jon Buller

By Steve Geise | Jun 27, 2023

Imagine having a scandalous but fascinating tale buried deep within the branches of your family tree. Then imagine having the ...

Book Review: Listen, Beautiful Márcia by Marcello Quintanilha

By Steve Geise | Jun 7, 2023

Brazilian favelas typically evoke images of poverty, drugs, and desperation, as most notably explored in the film City of God. ...

Book Review: Doris Danger: Giant Monsters Amok by Chris Wisnia & Ricky Sprague

By Kent Conrad | Jun 1, 2023

As the American comic book industry developed in the '60s, it became significantly less diverse. Superheroes eventually became, essentially, the ...

Book Review: Salome’s Last Dance by Daria Tessler

By Mat Brewster | May 22, 2023

Portland artist Daria Tessler's second comic book published by Fantagraphics is a short, strange trip that finds influences from such ...

Book Review: Daughters of Snow and Cinders by Núria Tamarit

By Steve Geise | May 18, 2023

When a determined young adventurer sets out into the wilderness in search of gold, she quickly encounters threats from the ...

Book Review: The Heavy Bright by Cathy Malkasian

By Steve Geise | Mar 28, 2023

A young girl is tasked with a seemingly impossible quest: to hunt down and destroy 999 black eggs closely held ...

Book Review: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn

By Steve Geise | Mar 21, 2023

Briana Loewinsohn’s debut graphic novel heralds the arrival of an intriguing new talent already operating at a masterful level. Her ...

Book Review: Tts & Clts 1972-1987: An Underground, Women-made Comix Gets the Fantagraphics Touch

By Jack Cormack | Mar 20, 2023

Out this month, Tits & Clits 1972-1987 (Fantagraphics Books) compiles for the first time (in a single, handsome volume) all ...

Book Review: Mickey and Donald: For Whom the Doorbell Tolls

By Steve Geise | Mar 18, 2023

In 1999, a teacher at Disney’s Italian school for cartoonists presented his students with a prompt: select a short story ...

Book Review: Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Perón by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto and Enrique Breccia

By Steve Geise | Mar 13, 2023

Fantagraphics continues their series of Alberto Breccia releases with this graphic biography of the polarizing Argentine icon, Eva Perón, popularly ...

Book Review: Talespin: Flight of the Sky-Raker and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 2

By Kent Conrad | Feb 23, 2023

Disney Afternoon was a staple of after-school procrastination for nearly a decade, from 1990-1997. Several of those years included my ...

Book Review: Spa by Erik Svetoft

By Mat Brewster | Feb 14, 2023

Swedish writer/illustrator Erik Svetoft's Spa is a Kafkaesque adventure that plunges into a Lynchian nightmare. Set in a high-class, luxury ...

Book Review: The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot

By Steve Geise | Feb 7, 2023

The latest work from powerhouse French graphic novelist duo Ruppert and Merlot imagines a world much like our own with ...

Book Review The Man Who Fell to Earth Poster

Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Dan Watters and Dev Pramanik

By Steve Geise | Oct 28, 2022

The creators of this new graphic novel were faced with three apparent approaches to its production: craft an adaptation of ...

Comic Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero #299: The Penultimate Issue at IDW Sets up an Exciting Finale

By generaljabbo | Oct 24, 2022

For being the penultimate issue of G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, issue #299 (part four of the “All ...

Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero: Saturday Morning Adventures: The TV Show Comes to Life in This Fun Miniseries

By generaljabbo | Oct 22, 2022

During the 1980s, G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, was seemingly everywhere. What began as a successful toy line ...

Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special by Larry Hama

By generaljabbo | Oct 10, 2022

The 1960s had G.I. Joe, America’s Movable Fighting Man, a series of doll-sized action figures that highlighted all branches of ...

TV Review: Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book

By Steve Geise | Oct 5, 2022

After 40 years of ongoing publication, the Love & Rockets comic book is long overdue for a celebratory retrospective. Thankfully, ...

Book Review: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren

By Steve Geise | Jun 16, 2022

A young Latina politician runs for and wins office in New York as a virtual unknown, ousting a veteran incumbent ...

Book Review: The Junction by Norm Konyu

By Steve Geise | Apr 14, 2022

Far too rarely, a graphic novel lands in the market with such an assured sense of style and substance that ...

Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming by Stan Sakai

By Gordon S. Miller | May 22, 2021

Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming is Book 35 in the collected volumes of Stan Sakai's long running comic book series and the ...

Book Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 5

By Gordon S. Miller | May 16, 2021

The fifth volume of IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection opens with Issue #56, Part 7 of the ...

Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo Origins Volume 01 by Stan Sakai

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 7, 2021

Over the course of his comic book career, Stan Sakai has become a legend in the industry, winning numerous awards ...

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 22, 2021

Tying in with Disney+'s WandaVision, Marvel has repackaged some of the duo's adventures in Vision & the Scarlet Witch: The ...

Book Review: Star Wars: The Complete Classic Newspaper Comics, Vol. 3

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 10, 2018

IDW/The Library of American Comics' presentation of the Star Wars newspaper comics concludes with Volume 3, which presents nine stories ...

Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 7 by John Byrne

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 14, 2018

As stated in my previous reviews of this book series, John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions ...

Book Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita by Tipton, Tipton, Shasteen, Hernandez, Nieto

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 2, 2018

In the Star Trek franchise, there is a parallel universe dubbed the "Mirror Universe" where the evil Terran Empire, which ...

Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 6 by John Byrne

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 6, 2018

As stated in my previous reviews of this book series, "John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions ...

Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 7: 1959-1960 by Milton Caniff

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 14, 2017

Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988. The strip's titular hero served as an ...

Book Review: James Bond: SPECTRE: The Complete Comic Strip Collection

By Gordon S. Miller | Apr 20, 2017

Having previously collected and released the James Bond newspaper comic-strip adventures that ran in British newspapers, including in Omnibus Volumes ...