Stack Magazine Features Patrick Kyle
Stack Magazine selects 10 comics everyone should read as selected by the big wigs at ELCAF (East London Comics and Arts Festival) and Patrick Kyle’s Everywhere Disappeared makes this list!
“Everywhere Disappeared is a collection of Patrick Kyle’s short comics from 2013 to 2016 in which the machinations of life, work and art are pulled apart with droll dialogue, foreign figures and strange settings.” — Angela Sangma Francis, Stack Magazine
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Diabolique Magazine Features What Is Obscenity?
Diabolique Magazine has a feature on Rokudenashiko’s ever relevant What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good For Nothing Artist and her Pussy.
“The book is alternately charming, informative, and enraging; Igarashi’s cute drawing style opens us up to her plight and in between the brief prison stories are photos, informative essays and interviews that contextualize many of the concepts discussed.” — Klon Waldrip, Diabolique Magazine
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Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters Reviewed
Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse reviews A. Degen’s “magic” Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters.
“Fast and frenetic and at times frazzled, to be sure, this is a ‘romp’ in the truest sense, every page promising delights, delusions, and dementias hitherto unforeseen—and, crucially, delivering on those promises, plus interest.” — Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
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The Comics Journal Reviews A Western World
The Comics Journal reviews Michael DeForge’s latest collection of short work A Western World.
“For converts, the appeal here may be in the details, the minor changes, in addition to what concerns of theirs they find reflected. For newer readers, the book makes a fine introduction to a cartoonist who expertly blends form and subject.” — Greg Hunter, The Comics Journal
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According to the CBC GG is One of 18 Writers to Watch in 2018
CBC Books selects 18 writers to watch in 2018 and I’m Not Here author GG makes the list! Check it here!
Somnambulance Reviewed
The Comics Journal reviews Fiona Smyth’s incredible career-spanning comics collection Somnambulance.
“Each overstuffed, vibrating, oversexed panel seems to freeze and burrow into the page or into your skull, distracting you from the next image, which, in turn, distracts you from the next, and the next. These are comics in which the panels don’t so much work together as lovingly fight for dominance.” — Noah Berlatsky, The Comics Journal
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The Ideal Copy Reviewed
Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse reviews The Ideal Copy the latest Double+ Adventure by Ben Sears!
“The Ideal Copy proved to me that the scuttlebutt I’ve been hearing the last few years is absolutely true — Ben Sears is a cartoonist who intrinsically understands what younger readers want in a story, but the tent he’s hosting his party in a big one, and there’s plenty of room in it for us old-timers, too.” — Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
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The Ideal Copy Covered!
The Comics Workbook has a review and The Comics Journal has an excerpt of the comic The Ideal Copy by Ben Sears!
“Sears is the ultimate gamer in his very own Minecraft-of-the-mind, and I really have a ball touring it.” — Caleb Orecchio, The Comics Workbook
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Check out the exciting excerpt here!
Somnambulance in the News!
Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse reviews Fiona Smyth’s Somnambulance and The Toronto Star names it one of the best new graphic novels!
“Somnabulance, is more than a simple omnibus collection, it’s an important piece of comics history that, one hopes, will introduce its author/subject to a wider audience than she has ever enjoyed in the past.” — Ryan C.’s Four Color Apocalypse
Read the whole review here!
“These are feminist comics, for sure. There’s love, sexuality, gender and style on every page in images that draw you back, again and again. The images and stories are often challenging, but that’s part of why they’re great art.” — Mike Donachie, The Toronto Star
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Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters Reviewed by The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal reviews A. Degen’s colourful assemblage of cultural flotsam and jetsam Soft X-Ray / Mindhunters.
“Though Alex Degen’s comics are crowded with weird superheroes, poorly wrapped mummies and giant self-improving automatons—as well as lots of statues, which are often smashed to pieces—piles of dead bodies appear, too, sometimes covered in blood, and serve as a reminder for parts of Darger’s work.” — Oliver Ristau, The Comics Journal
Check the review out here!
