Review: I Thought You Loved Me (2023)
30 Comics in 30 Days - I’m reviewing a comic every day in November! Day 6 - I Thought You Loved Me by MariNaomi This is a memoir about the relationship...
Review: The Influence (2023)
30 Comics in 30 Days - I’m reviewing a comic every day in November! Day 5 - The Influence by Laura Knetzger (I’m not tagging Knetzger because I generally...
Review: Breaking News
30 Comics in 30 Days - I’m reviewing a comic every day in November! Day 4 - Breaking News by Daria Tessler The pages of this experimental, zany little comic...
Review: Ivy Allie's Hourly Comics Day collections
30 Comics in 30 Days - I’m reviewing a comic every day in November! Day 3: Ivy Allie’s Hourly Comics Day collections I picked up this little set of self-...
Review: Flip Turn
30 Comics in 30 Days. - I’m reviewing a comic every day in November! Day 2: Flip Turn by @bread_comix Flip Turn is a vulnerable comic. It's autobiographical...
Review: Fungirl (2022)
30 Comics in 30 Days [Because I’m dumb and set unrealistic goals, I’m trying to review a new comic every day in November. This isn’t quite as ridiculous as...
A few thoughts about Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza
I've been thinking a lot about Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza, which I've been slowly re-reading since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. I'm not naive...
Review: Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz (2023)
I went on an emotional journey with this book. (And a literal one: It was one of the heavier things I brought back from SPX earlier this month.) Peanuts, the...
Review: 10-10 to the Wind (2023)
I have no quarrel with comics that are drawn digitally; I don’t demand that every cartoonist use physical paper and ink. I recognize that’s just not a...
Review: Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
I don’t read many mystery novels. But when I do, it’s almost always twentieth-century noir or hardboiled crime fiction. Frankly, classic Agatha...
Review: Tinderella (2020)
I went in expecting a comic that would skim across the surface of what romance looks like in the modern era. I thought it might, perhaps, dip a languid toe...
Review: We Told You So: Comics As Art (2016)
The only reasonable place to begin a review of We Told You So – a self-described “oral history" of Fantagraphics, the influential publisher of alternative...
Review: Hellbound Lifestyle (2016)
The premise: Cartoonist Alabaster Pizzo takes her friend Kaeleigh Forsyth’s notes app entries and illustrates them. The result: Deadpan chaos. To all the...
Review: Self Made (2023)
“The story of self-creation, at its core, is not only a story about capitalism or secularism or the rise of the middle class or industrialization or...
Review: The Island (2023)
There are no straight lines in nature, and there are almost no straight lines in Allison Conway’s beautiful, wordless little comic The Island. Everything...
Review: Wendy (2014)
At first I didn’t know whether Wendy (the book) and I were going to get along. The comic is about a certified hot mess of a main character whose artistic...
You should absolutely critique memoirs!
but for the love of god don't give them a star rating
Writing update (8.13.23)
596 communist book co-ops would be great
Review: Ghost World (1997)
Dan Clowes’s graphic novel Ghost World is like the negative space that lurks behind every coming-of-age story. It dispenses with the normal conventions of...
Declarations of literature's impending demise, ranked
the novel is 100 percent for sure dead this time