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★★★★☆ At first glance, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom’s Palimpsest feels incongruous with its form. A graphic memoir that investigates Sjöblom’s own adoption in Sweden and her biological parents back in South Korea, Palimpsest is an...
★★★★☆ It’s not fair, but one expects perfection from Chris Ware. Author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories, and the recent Monograph, he is one of the most celebrated living cartoonists. Ware transformed the literary...
★★★★★ Winter of 1993 saw the publication of Chris Ware’s first installment of The Acme Novelty Library. A staple-bound book, Acme Novelty #1 was just under forty pages and showed a range of Ware’s...
★★★★☆ “Ero Guro Nansensu” is a slippery categorization: originally coined in the 1930s to describe a particularly decadent movement in Japanese art and literature, it has since seeped outside its borders into increasingly ribald...
★★★★☆ Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian began their celebrated Monsieur Jean series amidst the underground French comics scene of the 1990s. Centering around a small network of characters and their frequently visited cafes, bars,...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Chris Ware is one of the greatest cartoonists working today and the sumptuous Monograph provides all the proof one needs to understand this fact. Monograph is a memoir disguised...
★★★★☆ Tinted in soft pastels and silhouetted with simply-rendered pen-drawn figures, Tom Gauld’s delightfully erudite cartoons show a cultural landscape awkwardly close to anachronism. These strips exist in a world where classical literature goes...
★★★★☆ Uncomfortably Happily is a gentle slice-of-life manhwa memoir about adapting to change. Yeon-Sik and his wife move from Seoul to the mountains in an effort to clear their heads from the busy clamor...
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Radtke’s aimless comics memoir Imagine Wanting Only This is about little more than a writer in search of a story. Kristen clumsily wanders through a series of inspired diversions with hope that,...
