GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: Putin's Russia - The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham
This new book presents 164 pages of damned fine comics journalism.
Read MoreGRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: Factory Summers by Guy Delisle
This week’s graphic novel review is Factory Summers by Guy Delisle, a minimalistic at the summers the cartoonist spent as a teenager working in a paper factory in his hometown of Quebec.
Read MoreGRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle
This Is How I Disappear presents an ouroboros of exhaustion in the day-to-day lives of the younger generation. How we are more down-trodden, but we hold each other up…
Read MoreGRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: I Want You by Lisa Hanawalt
I Want You never reaches the highs of Tuca and Bertie or Bojack Horseman, but it’s still an amazing text full of heart, humor, and occasional melancholy.
Read MoreGRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: Billionaires by Darryl Cunningham
Money might make the world go round, but Darryl Cunningham’s new book Billionaires provides a peek beneath the surface of the idiom, illustrating how if we aren’t careful, it might spin out of control.
Read MoreGRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW: Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki
Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki, as translated by Zack Davisson, is a wonderful collection of stories. Some may be familiar, some strange, but all are imparted with a love of storytelling that keeps cultural ideas and tales alive.
Read MoreFamiliar Face HC - GRAPHIC NOVEL REVIEW
By Zack Quaintance — All of us living right now are undergoing something extraordinary. It’s easy to miss in the moment, but technology has begun to accelerate at an unprecedented, exponential rate. It’s unlike anything we’ve seen in human history, and you can tether it to whatever theory you like, with Moore’s Law perhaps being the easiest touchpoint for wrapping your head around this. Another easy touchpoint is to consider that the iPhone was a new product as recently as 2007, and now we walk around tethered to it, our abilities to navigate the world influenced by the debut of new apps, processing systems, and even small tweaks. This, in its simplest form, is what writer/artist Michael Deforge’s Familiar Face HC (published in March by Drawn & Quarterly) is about.
Read MoreYear of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna - REVIEW
By Zack Quaintance — Year of the Rabbit is a new graphic novel from writer/artist Tian Veasna, based on a harrowing true story he lived through as a child. That story is his family’s struggle to survive/flee the reign of the violent Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, following that group’s seizure of power in 1975. What emerges is a memoir comic of sorts that does not quite feel like a memoir comic. Instead it reads as a tense and harrowing story of escape, dotted with devastating-yet-important notes from a history largely unknown to many in the United States.
Read MoreDepartment of Mind-Blowing Theories - REVIEW
By Zack Quaintance — Department of Mind-Blowing Theories is the new book from cartoonist Tom Gauld, a poignant and often hilarious storyteller who in this work has turned his ample talents toward the bite-sized and satirical. The book is a compendium of single-page cartoons done for New Scientist, and, as such, they entirely skew that profession. It’s not a linear story of any sort, but, then again, that’s probably not want anyone is expecting when they pick this book up.
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