Alphabetical Index of Other Publishers

Mixtape #3 Available, Plans for Rest of First Arc

It’s tough out there for an indy comic, particularly one telling slice-of-life stories about young adults. There are plenty of webcomics one can read for free with similar setups, so it requires a great deal of quality to stand out and justify the cover price. More, there’s the whole distribution question. People don’t know they want your comic unless they see it and know it exists, and that requires somewhere they can browse it, which requires a storeowner to take […]

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Dumbing of Age: This Campus Is a Friggin’ Escher Print

I’m sure Dumbing of Age, by David Willis, is one of those webcomic strips that I’ve only just found but everyone else has been reading for ages. Still, I enjoyed it, and I want to talk about why. Reason #1: There’s a book, Dumbing of Age: This Campus Is a Friggin’ Escher Print. The comic has been running for three years, with a large cast, but I can jump back to the beginning and find out who everyone is* with […]

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Cartozia Tales #1

Cartozia is a wonderful concept. It’s a fantasy place, with two main parallel islands and several hangers-on. There’s a map, and that allows a variety of comic creators to explore the world through a variety of stories, which assemble into this ongoing shared-world anthology dedicated to fantasy for all ages. It’s edited by Isaac Cates, and regular contributors (in addition to him) are Mike Wenthe, Jen Vaughn, Lucy Bellwood, Shawn Cheng, Sarah Becan, Tom Motley, and Lupi McGinty. (Becan and […]

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Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

Mike Madrid, author of The Supergirls, a history of comic book heroines, is now bringing us reprints of vintage stories featuring female heroes with Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics. Madrid, in his introduction, defines “Lost” as “characters you may have heard of, but whose stories you never had the chance to read. Or they may be women who only made a few appearances and then disappeared.” Since the comics date from 1940-1947, the art style […]

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Blue Is the Warmest Color (aka Blue Angel)

You may have heard of Blue Is the Warmest Color earlier this summer. The French movie adaptation won the Cannes film festival Palme d’Or, followed by the author Julie Maroh denouncing the film. (The movie is due to be released in North America in October 2013 through Sundance Selects/IFC Films (USA) and Mongrel Media (Canada).) Now, the graphic novel is being translated into English, and it’s well worth reading. It’s the story of Clementine, a high schooler coming to terms […]

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Look Straight Ahead

I value graphic novels that give me another experience, one I would never otherwise be able to sample or understand. That’s the strength of Look Straight Ahead, the story of Jeremy Knowles’ struggle with mental illness and treatment (collected from a webcomic I’ve previously mentioned). Jeremy’s life seems typical for a comic protagonist — he’s an artist, without many friends, picked on by the popular bullies, with a crush on his friend’s girlfriend whom he’s too shy to even say […]

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RASL

Jeff Smith, author of Bone, returns with another adventure epic, this one aimed at adults. This full-color hardcover omnibus contains the complete story of RASL, edited and expanded from the serialized version, giving us the best way to follow all the twists and turns. I intended to sample just some of it last night, but I had to keep going, riding the adrenaline as Rasl jumps from one parallel universe to another. His scientific discovery, aided by Nikola Tesla’s lost […]

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Beautiful Creatures: The Manga

I had heard of Beautiful Creatures as a movie, a gender-swapped attempt to cash in on the Twilight audience with a paranormal romance based on a popular novel series. I wasn’t likely to either read or see it, so a comic version seemed a great way for me to sample the story. Ethan is stuck in a small Southern town. He’s pretending not to be as smart or bored as he is, biding time until he can leave. Then Lena […]

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