Comics I Enjoyed in 2019
Alay-Oop, William Gropper NYRB reprinted this book this year, but it was originally published in 1930, the year after Lynd Ward’s God’s Man and the same year as Otto Nuckel’s Destiny and Milt Gross’s He ...
Soma
Soma Frictional Games I like sci-fi horror and the initial videos of Soma looked really cool. But while I was excited to play the game, I was also wary. Frictional games are hit-or-miss with me. I liked ...
Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019
As with many other folks associated with comics, Tom’s death shocked me and is taking some time for me to process. While I only met Tom once and so wasn’t by any means close with ...
So yeah, no Inktober
After I sounded so confident, I ended up quitting my Inktober participation. Basically, I realized I was spending what time I had on drawings for Inktober instead of working on my comics. I decided I ...
Inktober 2019 – First Third
My initial feeling about Inktober was that I already drew in ink so I didn’t need a month devoted to it. Even so, I would post a few things every year half-heartedly. This year though, ...
45 pages of “Lounger”
I’m still figuring out how to describe “Lounger.” A post-apocalyptic dark comedy? A contagion drama? An anti-Walking Dead? Like Beckett rewriting Camus’s The Plague (I wish…)? If you have a suggestion for how to describe ...
The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James
Martin Vaughn-James, The Cage; 1975. Like many graphic novels that were published before the term even existed, such as Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660, Martin Vaughn-James has created a work that is more akin to a picture book ...
Digital version of Lost Cause of Poetry now available
You can get a pdf from me through Gumroad. Or you can get a digital version through ComiXology.
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno
I first read this book as a scanlation, but Last Gasp has published an official translation. If you know nothing about this book, a quick glance at the cover might be misleading. The soft pastels ...
Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Upgrade Soul By Ezra Claytan Daniels The common belief about Frankenstein is that it is a monster story. The focus is on the Creature’s hideousness. This is ironic given the central heart of the novel ...