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Feb 18, 2022
2021 Recap; autumn reads
Röhner by Max Baitinger Baitinger’s Röhner is a very humorous read while also one of the most formally experimental and unique comics I...
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Aug 23, 2021
Alex Graham's "Dog Biscuits", a great instagram comic written and set during the 2020 pandemic.
Reading this over a year after it started feels different, as we've distanced ourselves from both the beginning of the pandemic as well...
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Aug 18, 2021
"The Photographer" by Guibert, Lefèvre and Lemercier is a nonfiction tour de force.
This comic has the reader following French photographer Didier Lefèvre as he accompanies a Doctors Without Borders mission into the heart...
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Aug 9, 2021
The origins of graphic poetry; Kokoschka, Buzzatti and Pushwagner
The dreaming youths by Oskar Kokoschka. This brief illustrated poem by the Austrian artist is an interesting piece of media, as it could...
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Jul 15, 2021
Urasawa's Pluto, a sci-fi masterpiece
Based on a story by Tezuka, the father of manga, Pluto mixes an almost-Disney-like atmosphere of techno-positivism with great horror...
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Jul 13, 2021
Pedrosa's "Portugal", another great comic by the Frenchman.
My second contact with the work of Frenchman Cyril Pedrosa, Portugal is, ironically, a rather unfrench story about family and identity...
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Jun 30, 2021
Six Comics I'd recommend if my life depended on it (sci-fi edition)
This is going to be a list of six comics I would recommend to someone if I didn't know anything about them and my life depended on them...
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May 31, 2021
Six comics to save my life, part 2
This is going to be a list of six comics I would recommend to someone if I didn't know anything about them and my life depended on them...
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Apr 26, 2021
On a Sunbeam and This is how you lose the time war; two great sci-fi stories.
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Set in a futuristic world where spaceships look like fish and buildings float away in space, On a Sunbeam...
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Mar 26, 2021
Getting into Indie Comix, a Guide.
I see a lot of posts where people ask want to get into more indie and alternative comics. Here's my attempt at giving some helpful advice...
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Mar 17, 2021
Jorge Luis Borges, Yosiharu Tsuge, Freddy Lombard, Soft City and other recent reads.
Jorge Luis Borges “The Aleph” is a short story (20-ish pages) by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It’s the first thing I’ve read by...
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Feb 18, 2021
Zanardi by Andrea Pazienza, reviewing the cult classic by my favourite author.
The Zanardi Cycle or Zanardi Saga is a collection of comics done by the Italian Andrea Pazienza (The last days of Pompeo) from the...
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Dec 21, 2020
Six comics I'd recommend if my life depended on it.
After watching several youtube videos by Noah Van Sciver and Brian Baynes (https://youtu.be/tHZOxdOeojg), Earl Grey...
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Dec 6, 2020
Black Hole by Charles Burns, as good as they say?
Charles Burns’ Black Hole was one of those comics I wasn’t sure I was going to like (mainly because I am not into the horror genre), even...
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Oct 21, 2020
Pompeo by Andrea Pazienza Review
I discovered Pompeo and Pazienza while browsing some of my local comic book shops (Akira Comics and Elektra Comics in Madrid). The cover...
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Oct 15, 2020
Peplum by Blutch Review
Blutch’s Peplum is a comic I was recommended by a fellow redditor (u/LondonFroggy) as one of his ten favorite comics of all time, and I...
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Oct 12, 2020
Hispanic Creator Spotlight
To celebrate the twelfth of October (día de la Hispanidad), I’d like to share some of my favorite and most influential creators in the...
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Sep 20, 2020
Berlin by Jason Lutes Review
An interesting story about the evolution of Berlin through the late twenties and early thirties through a vast and varied cast of...
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Sep 6, 2020
Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa Review and Commentary
One of the best stories I have read in the last couple of months, Frenchman Pedrosa’s “Three Shadows” stands out as a deep and emotional...
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Aug 15, 2020
Metabarons by Jodorowsky and Giménez brief R&C
The sequel to the famous Incal comic by Jodorowsky and Moebius, this is the story of the Metabaron’s family tree, from his great-great...
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