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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: Civil War by Jacob Johnston
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: Civil War is the 12th release in the 22-book ...
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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: Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955: Paperback Edition by Charles M. Schulz
By Shawn Bourdo |
The Peanuts Every Sunday series was released in hardcover by Fantagraphics starting in 2013. The ten-book series released the Sunday ...
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Book Review: Rewinding the ‘80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War by John Malahy
By Lorna Miller |
I love the ‘80s; it is the decade that shaped and created my interest in movies. Rewinding the ‘80s: Cinema ...
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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: Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles, Written and Edited by Brian Walker
By Gordon S. Miller |
Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles celebrates the Diamond Anniversary of Mort Walker's comic strip about the habitually lazy Private ...
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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: Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 1 by Brian M. Kane
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics kicks off a new six-volume look behind the scenes of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant comic strip with this initial ...
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Book Review: These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Grady Hendrix & Chris Poggiali
By Gordon S. Miller |
Coming four years after its original release, the Revised and Expanded Edition of These Fists Break Bricks is a fascinating ...
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Book Review: I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Lucinda Williams & Leonard Cohen or Leonard Cohen Buys Paul Nelson a Cheeseburger but Lucinda Williams Won’t, edited by Kevin Avery
By writeonmusic |
When rock and pop-culture critic Paul Nelson was commissioned by LA Weekly in early 1991 to profile Lucinda Williams and ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Ant-Man by Jacob Johnston
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Ant-Man is the 11th release in the 22-book Marvel Studios: The ...
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Book Review: Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard (Rev. and Updated) by Matt Taylor
By Shawn Bourdo |
The 50th Anniversary of Jaws (1975) has kicked the marketing machine for the film into overdrive. There have been LEGOs, ...
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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: Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 Revised Edition
By Steve Geise |
The latest Sunday Press release through Fantagraphics revisits the first 20 years of the American comic strip, compiling over 200 ...
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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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Avengers: Age of Ultron by Jacob Johnston
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Avengers: Age of Ultron is the tenth release in the 22-bookMarvel ...
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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: Nancy Wears Hats by Ernie Bushmiller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ernie Bushmiller wrote and drew Nancy, a comic strip about the humorous antics of the titular eight-year-old and her friend ...
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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: Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum
By Joe Garcia III |
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television is the first full biography solely about Desi in many years. Desi’s own ...
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Book Review: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928-1930
By Kent Conrad |
I do not receive a daily newspaper. Nor have I for over a decade. I used to pay attention to ...
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Book Review: Buz Sawyer Vol. 5: Island of the Lotus Eaters by Roy Crane
By Steve Geise |
After a publishing gap of over eight years, Fantagraphics continues their collected editions of Roy Crane’s long-running adventure comic strip. ...
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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: Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally published in 2001 and spun off from his Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, Eddie Muller's Dark ...
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Book Review: Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
By Steve Geise |
Suzanne Collins continues her expansion of the Hunger Games mythology with this dive into the backstory of Haymitch Abernathy. If ...
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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: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Guardians of the Galaxy by Marie Javins
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Guardians of the Galaxy is the ninth release in the 22-book ...
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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: TCM Imports: Timeless Favorites and Hidden Gems of World Cinema by Alicia Malone
By Davy |
I know it isn't always easy to engage in international cinema, especially because of subtitles. However, if you don't take ...
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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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