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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 ...

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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 ...