Book Review: Total Recall: The Official Story of the Film by Simon Braund
By Kent Conrad |
Total Recall is one of those movies whose spectacle convinced critics it was dumber than it was. It's a brash ...
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Book Review: Elise and the New Partisans by Dominique Grange and Tardi
By Steve Geise |
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: The De Palma Decade by Laurent Bouzereau: A Breezy Tribute to a Master Provocateur
By Rocky London |
Laurent Bouzereau’s The De Palma Decade (Running Press) is a valentine to director Brian De Palma’s provocative 1970s run. Divided ...
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Book Review: Pinocchio: An Illuminated Edition by Carlo Collodi, Mike Mignola, and Lemony Snicket
By Steve Geise |
If you’re unfamiliar with the ongoing series of Illuminated Editions published by Beehive Books, they’re gloriously oversized, slipcased, and boxed ...
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Book Review: Kate Carew: America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist by Eddie Campbell
By Steve Geise |
At the start of the 20th century, when female employment of any kind was a rarity, Kate Carew was an ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man 3 by Marie Javins & Stuart Moore
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man 3 is the sixth release in the 24-book Marvel ...
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Book Review: Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch by Guy Colwell
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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!
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Steve Geise |
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: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “A Christmas For Shacktown” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "A Christmas For Shacktown" is Volume 11 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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Book Review: Kommix by Charles Burns: A Black Box of Strange
By Rocky London |
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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of The Avengers by Jason Surrell
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of The Avengers is the fifth release in the 24-book Marvel Studios: ...
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Book Review: Braba: A Brazilian Comics Anthology
By Steve Geise |
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
By Mat Brewster |
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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The First Avenger by Matthew K. Manning
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The First Avenger is the fourth release in the ...
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Book Review: Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass
By Darcy Staniforth |
The saying “Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it” gets thrown around in a lot of different ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Old Castle’s Secret” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Old Castle's Secret” is Volume 6 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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Book Review: Mark Twain’s War Prayer, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
By Shawn Bourdo |
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: Prince Valiant Vol. 28: 1991-1992 by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Cullen Murphy
By Steve Geise |
Twenty years into his reign on Prince Valiant, replacement artist John Cullen Murphy and his son and writer Cullen Murphy ...
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Book Review: Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995
By Steve Geise |
For over two decades, cartoonist Stan Mack contributed weekly comic strips to the Village Voice recounting his overheard observations of ...
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Book Review: The Complete Web of Horror
By Joe Garcia III |
Web of Horror was a very short-lived horror magazine that ran from late 1969 until early 1970. After a grand ...
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Book Review: Petar & Liza by Miroslav Sekulic-Struja
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Steve Geise |
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: Kamen’s Kalamity and Other Stories
By Joe Garcia III |
Fantagraphics adds to its EC Comics Library with Kamen’s Kalamity and Other Stories. Another collection featuring artist Jack Kamen in “27 ...
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Book Review: The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins
By Kent Conrad |
Private-detective books are great fun. They have the rock-solid dramatic structure of the cop solving a crime, with the added ...
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Book Review: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris
By Mat Brewster |
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: Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film by Alonso Duralde
By Davy |
The LGBTQ community (which I'm proud to be a part of) has made great strides especially in pop culture for ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor by Matthew K. Manning
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor is the third release in the 24-book Marvel Studios: The ...
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Book Review: Forbidden Cocktails: Libations Inspired by the World of Pre-Code Hollywood by André Darlington
By Darcy Staniforth |
Sex. Scandal. Drinking. These are just a few of the titillating things that made pre-Code Hollywood movies so good. But ...
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Book Review: Nobody’s Angel by Jack Clark
By Kent Conrad |
When you're a movie fan and reading a taxi driver story, it's easy to have a certain film foremost in ...
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Book Review: Into the Night by Cornell Woolrich and Lawrence Block
By Mat Brewster |
Madeline sits in her small room in the dark. She turns off the radio so she can hear her thoughts. ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man 2 by John Barber
By Gordon S. Miller |
Skipping over Louis Leterrier's The Incredible Hulk, the second movie in The Infinity Saga, Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – ...
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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: Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards by Tony Lee Moral
By Gordon S. Miller |
As author Tony Lee Moral states in his Introduction, “No other director is more strongly associated with storyboarding than Sir ...
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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: John Ford (Revised and Expanded) by Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
By Shawn Bourdo |
Joseph McBride previously published biographies of Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, and three books on Orson Welles. He also wrote a ...
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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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man by John Rhett Thomas
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Iron Man is the first release in the 24-book Marvel Studios: ...
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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: 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins by Dave Karger
By Gordon S. Miller |
TCM host and entertainment journalist Dave Karger assembles a series of interviews with a who's who (or for those that ...
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