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Between bioengineering nightmares, somatic horror, and the artificial flesh of maternal memory There is a subtly necrotic and deeply disturbing drive running through Leah Hayes’s … Read more
Frank returns in a haunting new release from Fantagraphics Books To enter the Unifactor is to step into a closed thermodynamic system powered by a … Read more
A liminal strip club appears on the highway, and nothing stays the same Anyone looking for a standard, localized coming-of-age story or a predictable underground … Read more
How the underground master bypasses standard nostalgia to resurrect the ghosts of 20th-century entertainment. There is a precise moment at the beginning of the final … Read more
Benjamin Marra Resets the Clock in What We Mean by Yesterday Vol 2 If in the first volume of What We Mean by Yesterday projected … Read more
A Day of Ordinary Madness: The Psychedelic Spiral of What We Mean by Yesterday What happens when the invisible barrier of human tolerance completely snaps … Read more
Queen of Cosmos Comix Trilogy brings together five decades of cosmogony, autobiography, and Orthodox Jewish visual practice The nickname came from a musician. Barbara Mendes’ … Read more
The graphic novel that strips away the false glamour of the culinary industry In her new graphic novel, The Pass, published by Fantagraphics, Chapman eschews … Read more
Shadows of São Paulo: The Stark Visuals of the Tiodora’s Letters Comic Marcelo D’Salete’s Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom, published … Read more
The Visceral Inferno of Go Nagai. Reclaiming Alighieri through the brutalist lens of Dynamic Pro. Go Nagai strips the Divine Comedy of its academic veneer … Read more
Shadows of the Sea Review: Cathy Malkasian’s Vision of Mass Delusion Cathy Malkasian combines whimsical elements with themes of profound sadness in her graphic novels. … Read more
When Nothing Lasts: Carol Tyler’s Reflection on Transience Carol Tyler, one of the most celebrated and intimate voices in American autobiographical comics, delivers with The … Read more
Ten Years of Tommi Parrish in a New Fantagraphics Book Published by Fantagraphics and set for an October 2025 release, “The Past Is a Grotesque … Read more
When Tech Bros Play God: Max Huffman’s Graphic Novel Max Huffman is a Chicago-based cartoonist recognized for a highly stylized aesthetic that merges the chaotic … Read more
Psychological Horrors of Love: Inside Junji Ito’s ‘Lovesick Dead’. “Lovesick Dead” is a manga by Japanese horror artist Junji Ito. Set in a fog-enshrouded town … Read more
Tomie: A Graphic Novel Review – A Chilling Exploration of Beauty, Obsession and Horror Tomie is a horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji … Read more
Ranxerox is a satire of contemporary society highlighting the violent and sadistic elements inherent in it. Ranx is a cyberpunk comic by Stefano Tamburini, Tanino … Read more