Meathaus SOS, by various artists
May 3, 2009 2:36 amAnother installment of the long-running alt.comics anthology that earlier introduced me to Tomer Hanuka, Farel Dalrymple, and James Jean. Those... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
A Drifting Life, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
May 1, 2009 2:36 amAn impressively compelling 800+ page autobiography in comics form. Tatsumi’s life tells the story of the early years of manga... View Article
Class Trip, by Emmanuel Carrere
April 30, 2009 2:26 amIt’s hard to imagine any truly good stories about serial killers targeting children; it’s just too exploitative. Carrere solves the... View Article
Scout Vol. 2, by Timothy Truman
April 19, 2009 2:33 amI generally enjoyed the first volume of this reprint of the 1980s indie comic. The bottom fell out for me... View Article
Pluto Vol. 2, by Naoki Urasawa
April 15, 2009 2:18 amUrasawa’s mystery about murdered super robots deepens in this volume. The character studies here are more affecting than in Monster... View Article
The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
April 3, 2009 2:58 amEd. Paul Gravett Nearly 500 pages of crime comics, ranging from the 50s to the present. Some boring stuff, some... View Article
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, by Stuart Dybek
April 1, 2009 2:50 amAlways interesting to find a closet horror fan among the literary fiction ranks. This first, finely wrought collection of Dybek’s... View Article
Small Hands, by Daniel Zezelj
March 30, 2009 2:50 amThis European comic is all art. The story seems to concern a piano playing teenager being pushed into crime, but... View Article
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, by Rod Serling, Mark Kneece, and Rich Ellis
March 27, 2009 10:50 amA slight adaptation of a Twilight Zone classic. While a classic Red Scare TV episode, the comic seems out of... View Article
Altmann’s Tongue, by Brian Evenson
March 24, 2009 2:44 amAn uninterrupted Evenson book can be a hard slog. Short stories interspersed with others’ writing is ideal. His best stories... View Article