Battling Boy, the most recent work by cartoonist Paul Pope, arrived from First Second Books last year, although I was…
Comics Works: Brief Notes on Releases New and New-ish
Love and Rockets: New Stories, vol. 6 by Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez “The Love Bunglers,” serialized from 2010 to…
The Dain Curse
I finished Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse more than a year ago, as part of an ongoing effort to read…
N Ways of Reading Incidents in the Night
Adventure comic. Artist David B.’s Incidents in the Night unveils a conspiracy that involves the Napoleonic Wars, an ancient god…
Taking in Stoker
Throughout Stoker, moment after moment, viewers watch light flicker across a character’s eyes. Depending on the character, the irises of…
Hammer Down
Jason Molina, the singer, songwriter, and only consistent member of musical projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., died…
Good Kid, Meme City: Froggy Fresh’s Hip-Hop Bildungsroman
The odds are against Tyler Cassidy, better known as Froggy Fresh, formerly known as Krispy Kreme. Not in the sense…
Comics Works: An Interview with Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell is a California-raised cartoonist living in Brooklyn. The Voyeurs, her latest collection of autobiographical comics and the first…
Comics Works: The Keys to KING CITY
Brandon Graham’s King City is a futuristic, highly corporatized ethnic jumble of a metropolis, lined with hidden passageways and shaded…
Trapped in the Echo Chamber
With Prometheus, this summer’s companion piece to the science fiction classic Alien, Ridley Scott has made the exact sort of…