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Book Review: ‘Dog Butts and Love. And Stuff Like That. And Cats.’ by Jim Benton
The cartoonist’s first collection of web cartoons is in the grand tradition of great gag cartoonists of the magazine age.
Read More »Comic Book Review: ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ by Harlan Ellison and J.K. Woodward
A classic Trek episode gets its comic book miniseries adaptation.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: ‘Chronos Commandos’ by Stuart Jennett
Americans and Nazis fight a War that Time Forgot in a pulpishly grisly sci-fi war comic.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: ‘Family Ties’ by Eric Hobbs and Noel Tuazon
“King Lear” re-writ as “An Alaskan Crime Drama.”
Read More »Comic Book Review: ‘Weird Love’ #1, Edited by Clizia Gussoni and Craig Yoe
“This Is A Yoe-mance Publication!”
Read More »Book Review: ‘Southern Cross, Volume 1’ by Dorvall and Philip Renne
This graphic novel is a beautifully illustrated and thought-provoking alternative history of the Civil War.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Simon & Kirby Library: Horror!’ by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
The latest entry in the S&K Library collects the duo’s vintage horror comic book work.
Read More »Graphic Novel Review: ‘Graphic Classics: H.G. Wells,’ Edited by Tom Pomplun
A reissued version of Tom Pomplun's classic comics set offers two fresh adaptations of classic Wells works.
Read More »Interview: Box Brown, Author of ‘Andre The Giant’
Few people know when they expect to die. Fewer people succeed in living to the fullest in those years.
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