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★★★★☆ Gabrielle Bell’s comics are works of nervous intimacy. Her scratchy pen hews rough scenes of life’s daily slog, like her boring city commute from upstate New York, doing chores, and the occasional late-night...
★★★★☆ Originally published in 2001, James Sturm’s The Golem’s Mighty Swing is a masterful but fleeting confluence of comics and American history, beautifully drawn in clean inky lines and paced with cinematic control. This...
★★★☆☆ You’ve probably seen “spot illustratings” before but not known what to call them. They’re the “unsung toiler of the magazine page,” illustrations tucked into margins and quietly placed after an article’s paragraphs in...
★★★★★ Wickedly unsettling and alluring, Charles Burns’s graphic novel Last Look was originally published in three separate hardcover volumes between 2010 and 2014: X’ed Out, The Hive and Sugar Skull. Typically, omnibus editions are...
★★★★☆ A real estate photographer reflects on the decaying metropolis around him: he remembers a time of sodas floating in corner-store iceboxes, of shaped iron weights keeping stacks of newspapers from flying through...
★★★★★ Adrian Tomine’s collection of short fiction Killing and Dying is one of the finest examples of comics-as-literature published to date: these six exceptional stories should be anthologized with the best from writers like...
Trash Market reads like a sudden spotlight in a dark basement: Tadao Tsuge’s lurching manga stories illuminate the dregs of post-war Japan with characters haunted by their inability to adapt socially and financially to...
