Yummy!: A History of Desserts has cracked the code of an essential conversation every child must have to engage with cultural narrative in a way that protects them from the inevitable dissolution of finding out that history is not made entirely of truth…
Read More"Did You Hear Eddie Gein Done?" uses the facts of Ed Gein’s life to tell a story so compelling, so expertly rendered and compassionately told, it will have you questioning what you consider your truth.
Read MoreThe graphic novel Old Head by Kyle Starks is a hilarious, gripping, gorefest of a horror-comedy about a father trying to learn to see himself through his twelve-year-old daughter's eyes.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — Two Dead is a recent crime noir graphic novel from writer Van Jensen and artist Nate Powell, set in Arkansas post WW II and based on an actual case that Jensen essentially uncovered and wrote about during his time as a crime reporter at a newspaper in Little Rock. Powell — a towering talent who has a stack of comics and literary accolades to his name — drew the book over a period of a few years while working concurrently on work such as Come Again and March, a three part graphic memoir about the life of the late Rep. John Lewis.
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — “The American Dream will never---,” our Uncle Sam surrogate shouts before being riddled with bullets. He, of course, stands up in a display of grit and determination that would make the Founding Fathers proud to yell at his assailants, “The American Dream will never die! But you will.” And in that insane moment, I realized two things about Undiscovered Country: 1) I unabashedly love this comic and 2) I have absolutely no idea what this is about.
Read MoreBy Mike Donachie — There are two Garth Ennises writing in comics, or so it seems. They manifest as one man, but his body of work is split like divergent timelines.
Read MoreOriginally serialized in Comic Baku in 1985-1986, The Man Without Talent follows the semi-autobiographical account of Yoshiharu Tsuge’s attempts to jilt creative disparity and remove himself from society. After quitting his career as a comic artist, the protagonist of the comic turns his focus not to retirement, but to another career: selling rocks out of the Tamagawa River in Chōfu, (which is about as glamorous as it sounds.) As a result, he navigates the everyday struggles of a poverty and lackadaisy-stricken man, from a creeping malaise to growing resentment from family and himself.
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