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Comic books from the 1960s and ’70s, even the good ones, often ask contemporary readers to bring to them some degree…
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The great joy of reading Soft X-Ray/Mindhunters (Koyama Press) is in not really knowing what’s going on. Characters…
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The Italian cartoonist Gipi is still an unfamiliar name for most American readers. His work first became available…
B+
In Blackbird Days (Fantagraphics Books) the Italian master Manuele Fior plays with form and style in a series of…
A
The first story in Yellow Negroes And Other Imaginary Creatures (New York Review Comics) is titled “Love,” and in a…
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The history of the universe is very long and complicated, but it is done no favors when represented as the steady,…
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As far as Roman Muradov comics go, Resident Lover (Kuš!) is fairly straightforward. Only 28 pages long, the comic…
A
Red Colored Elegy (Drawn & Quarterly) is the longest sustained narrative produced by author Seiichi Hayashi, a…
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In comics, bodies can contort and shift and slide in every way imaginable—changing in size, proportion, color, or…
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Comics adaptations are almost as old as the form itself, with fairy tales, novels, and other literary works having…
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Serialized on the Study Group comics website, Farel Dalrymple’s Proxima Centauri - Part 1 bears an unspecified…
Escapism has long been a driving tenet of comic books, but as the medium has evolved, creators have started to see…
Something about this year made reading books feel not just crucial, but a little bit transgressive. Maybe it’s the…
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In the European and Japanese markets, comics about cooking aren’t uncommon. Take, for example, Yuto Tsukuda and Shun…
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Over the course of the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other country in the…
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In Steven Soderbergh’s two-part biopic, Che, the Argentine revolutionary is rendered as fully human. Walking the…
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The Argentine director Lucia Puenzo once described the Nazis’ political project as an attempt to “modulate” the…
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Elliptical, opaque, and episodic, I’m Not Here (Koyama Press), the latest comic from the enigmatic GG, wraps itself…
D
Savage Town (Image Comics) fancies itself a pulpy crime yarn—in fact, it’s so in love with the idea of itself as an…
There’s a real temptation to just tell people to read Mitch Gerads and Tom King’s Mister Miracle #1 (DC) and leave…