This book of short graphic fiction features members of the Israeli collective Actus Comics, one member of which, Rutu Modan, authored the superior graphic novel “Exit Wounds” earlier. In “How to Love,” Modan examines the relationship between a down and out Israeli musician and his American fan in “Your Number One Fan,” a depiction of [...]
“Paul Goes Fishing” is a sweet slice of Quebecois life that covers an existence not extraordinary necessarily, but honest in its presentation and likable in its demeanor. Creator Michel Rabagliati invites readers into some very personal space via his apparent alter ego, dealing with that most awkward of spaces — the one where you grow [...]
Using the structure of a blues song as its own structure — and taking the kind of legendary subject matter of the music itself — “Bluesman” is both a a studied examination of the lives of blues performers in the 1920s and an infectious crime tale taking place within that sleazy underbelly.
Lem Taylor travels the [...]
In the first-rate science fiction mystery graphic novel “The Surrogates,” the latest craze for technology-hungry Americans is to have a surrogate — that is, an android body that goes out and lives your life for you while you sit around the house hooked up to it. The world presented by “The Surrogates” is a bleak [...]
Through books like “The Bear” and “The Snowman” Raymond Briggs has met with acclaim largely for books aimed at kids that have a dark edge to them. They stop short of actually being depressing, but the humor they disperse has a bite, peppered with an outlook that is not wholly sunny. Briggs has also branched [...]
The Rapture has provided adventure fodder for those who believe in it — I’m looking at you especially, Tim LeHaye — as well as those who don’t. To the best of my knowledge, though, it’s never been depicted as anything other than exactly what is happening. God has taken all the Christians away to Heaven [...]
The phrase “comic book journalism” isn’t one that is bandied around very often, but Joe Sacco has proven it can be done and in such a way that it puts a good bit of traditional journalism — as it exists today — to shame.
“Safe Area Gorazde” was duly lauded when it was first released — [...]
Froguts is virtual dissection software! Yay! You can do some of it online, but we have the subscription CD, which has more you can do, including a fetal pig — you have to pay to play for the fetal pig action. But online, you can try dissecting a frog, a squid, and an owl pellet [...]
Charles Burns’ “Black Hole,” recently re-released in paperback, is a horror novel of a different kind — one where the monsters are ourselves, but where the horror will be temporary if only we can survive it.
The best horror stories all riff from something real and honest and take it to a nightmarish extreme — works [...]
In Matt Kindt’s artful and dense graphic novel “Super Spy,” there is a nostalgia for the intrigue and confusion of old-style spying — while gadgets and action are present, they do not overtake the actual stories. The humanity is not lost in the excitement and Kindt’s portrayal of War World II espionage is a one [...]
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