Firefighter Ursa Cain has a lot to prove and in Danica Novgorodoff’s “Slow Storm,” you begin to wonder if she ever will. Ursa is the only female firefighter in a firehouse in Kentucky, constantly having to prove herself as good as any of the guys and particularly tortured by her own brother, who mocks her [...]
French creator Emmanuel Guibert offers giddy science fiction tomfoolery with the fifth volume of his “Sardine in Outer Space” series, “My Cousin Manga and Other Stories.”
Guibert’s work follows. the adventures of the little witch-like girl Sardine and the cat hiding in her hat as they travel with goofball Captain Yellow Shoulder and the manic Little [...]
In the delightful “The Amazing, Remarkable Monsieur Leotard,” graphic novel treasure Eddie Campbell and his collaborator Dan Best take a look at old side shows and draw a direct line between those performers and the modern day superhero. This unexpected feat is accomplished by examining the structure of exciting narratives and sweeping adventures as experienced [...]
French cartoonist Joann Sfar unleashes his macabre kids comic “Little Vampire,” with three stories that mix dark comedy with sincere sweetness for a collection that will no doubt speak to children as it values not only their intelligence, but empathy and perspective.
Little Vampire himself lives in a haunted mansion with other ghouls — all grown [...]
Kaput and Zosky are aliens of the worst kind, with only three things on their minds — killing, killing and killing. Aside from that fixation, their only real goal is to dominate a world — any world — and their only real preference is to do so in the most violent, painful, awful way possible. [...]
Creepy and mythic, Cyril Pedrosa’s “Three Shadows” follows a family to the end of its greatest fear, examining what a parent will do for a child, while managing to steer the story away from a foreboding gloom that could overtake it and transforming it into a fable.
The appearance of three dark horsemen on a hillside [...]
If there is a universal truth about being a teenager, it’s that the age presents a challenge in juggling tradition and rebellion. A kid often finds himself swept up in the bullying march of all that came before, while trying to cling to some vestige of modern individuality. Even the nicest teenagers try to differentiate [...]
In creator Jessica Abel, comics have found a tireless advocate in the medium’s shift to mainstream acceptability through the medium of graphic novels.
Abel’s most recent work, “La Perdida,” won her major acclaim for its realistic portrayal of a clueless American expatriate in Mexico City — prior to that, Abel garnered attention for her comic “Artbabe” [...]
The history of the comic book medium is filled with lots of serviceable work sharing space with lots of dreck and, slipped in there, a portion of creators whose work ranks up with the best in any medium that relies on storytelling as its center. Even higher still are those who create new ways to [...]
In Sara Varon’s “Robot Dreams,” a complicated tale of friendship is told through a very simple structure — dog makes robot, dog loses robot. There’s more than that, of course — dog grapples with robot being missing, robot grapples with feelings of abandonment, dog attempts to assuage his own guilt by seeking out new friends, [...]
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