Review: Assessing the damage in ‘Roughneck’
Jeff Lemire has become quite a prolific comics creator since 2008. He’s largely devoted himself to the varying forms of genre fiction that comics offers, both his own creations, like Sweet Tooth or The...
View ArticleReview: The quiet poetry of Chaboute’s ‘Alone’
It’s 84 pages in before the subject of French graphic novelist Chaboute‘s largely silent work Alone finally appears, and even then, it’s only in the form of a hand dropping food to a goldfish in a...
View ArticleReview: The other realms of epilepsy revealed in ‘Mis(h)adra’
Mis(h)adra is a hard work to criticize, largely because it’s so personal and so raw in its portrayal of the intimate. Iasmin Omar Ata is an epileptic and Mis(h)adra is autobiographical in that respect....
View ArticleReview: Michael Kupperman’s haunting quest for ‘All The Answers’
Often in our history, but especially right now, popular culture is an obstructive thing, and one of the main things it keeps us from seeing is what happened before whatever is happening now. It’s...
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Gallery 13/Simon & Schuster Grab the Rights to the Stephen King Dark Tower...
They'll be reissuing them *bi-weekly*
View ArticleReview: German guilt and the nature of mundane evil in ‘Belonging’
What is it like to be of the most despised nationality in modern history? I’m not talking about being an American, though it’s not outrageous to think our history of slavery and treatment of Native...
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Review: ‘270°’ and ‘To Build A Fire’ honor different aspects of nature in...
Is nature our friend or our enemy, or maybe a little of both? Perhaps it’s not even measurable against the human experience, since we are the only creature that has willfully left it behind to craft...
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AHOY COMICS finds a new port at Simon & Schuster
Diamond will remain as comic shop distributor. Fall releases also confirmed.
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Interview: Living fast and eating trash with THE RACC PACK creators
The Beat caught up with Stephanie Cooke and Whitney Gardner to learn more about their new graphic novel, available beginning today!
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