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Polina - Bastien Vivès

Polina is an intimate character study of Polina Oulinov who wants to become professional ballet dancer. The comic starts off with a very young Polina trying to get into Bojinsky Academy to learn ballet...

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Basil & Victoria: London Guttersnipes by Yann & Edith

Collection : Humanoids Inc.Edition : Slightly Oversized Edition240 pages - 8.5 x 11 inches - ColorEAN 9781594650659$39.95 - £24.9You can buy it here  When I first delved into Basil & Victoria I...

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B+F - Gregory Benton

64 4C pages10 " x 15 " HC$24.95 US fundsISBN 978-1-935233-25-1Buy it here I don't remember how B+F got on my radar but I'm so glad it did.B+Fis a wordless comic about a nameless woman and her dog going...

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Brooklyn Quesadillas - Antony Huchette & Skyway Sleepless - Tom Kaczynski

ISBN 1-894994-79-5978-1-894994-79-86.5x9.5 inches, 72 pages, b/w softcover$15Buy it hereI gotta thanks Joe McCulloch for getting Brooklyn Quesadillas into my attention. His quick description got me...

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Sorry for the lack of updates

Sorry y'all, but we've all been busy with school and work. We'll try to pick thing up in the future but for now, updates will be a tad erratic.-Larry B Vossler

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Thoughts on Beautiful Darkness - Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoët

I'm a huge fan of Fabien Vehlmann's work:Marquis d'Anaon, La nuit de l'inca, Green Manor, Last Days of an Immortal, Isle of 100,000 Graves& Suel (which is getting an English release as The...

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The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist

Reinhard Kleist’s The Boxer – The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft tells the extraordinary and heartbreaking story of Hertzko “Harry” Haft, a Polish Jew who survived the German death camps...

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Milan K. Part 1: The Teenage Years by Sam Timel & Corentin

Milan K. is one of those European comics that are fantastic action from the first to the last page, but unlike American comics without the suits and spandex. Milan K. is much in the vein of XIII and...

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Rembrandt - Typex

As we open Rembrandt we are welcomed with a single splash page of an elephant inside of a ship's cargo. It's weary, beaten, alone and in complete darkness. Typex portrays this in a way that's...

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Advance Review: Metabarons Genesis: Castaka - Alexandro Jodorowsky & Das...

Edition : Oversized Deluxe Edition112 pages - 9.4 x 12.6 inches - ColorEAN 9781594650536$49.95 - £29.99The comic gets released on March 26. So when the 26 comes you can buy it here!I'm not a big fan of...

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Advance Review: Genesis - Nathan Edmondson, Alison Sampson, & Jason Wordie

We all want to change something in the world, whether it be within our family or on a more macro level or both, for better or worse. In Genesis Edmondson, Sampson & Wordie explore the that issue...

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Advance Review: Benito Mambo - Christian Durieux

Edition : Oversized Deluxe Edition120 pages - 10 x 13 inches - ColorEAN 9781594650857$34.95 - £19.99Benito Mambo's release date is April 30 2014. So when that date comes, buy it here!And thus starts...

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Station 16 by Hermann & Yves H.

I'll tell you I'm quite surprised to see an uprise in the number of English translations we get for European comics, or bande dessinées (BD). Why is this surprising though? Well I haven't seen many...

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Weapons of Mass Diplomacy (Quai d'Orsay) by Abel Lanzac and ChristopheBlain

Heads up: Quai d'Orsay (Weapons of Mass Diplomacy) was originally going to be reviewed by Ralf (who couldn't be bothered anymore;-), so I (Lawrence B Vossler) will finish it for him. The few paragraph...

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Youth is Wasted by Noah Van Sciver

When I read Youth is Wasted it was an overcast day. The rains have been coming and going just like the sun. The world around me felt like it was amberized and everything was slowly coming to a still....

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Michael Moorcock's Elric Vol. 1: The Ruby Throne by Julien Blondel, Didier...

Right off the bat I have to admit that I have never read either Moorcock's original novels about the albino emperor and his decaying island of Melniboné nor any of the graphic novel versions that have...

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Annihilation: A Novel by Jeff Vandermeer

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to...

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Eel Mansions - Derek Van Gieson

Eel Mansions - Derek Van GiesonIt's 6 am and I've been up since late 4am or early 5 am or some other ungodly early hour in the morning. I've just arrived at my apartment from dropping my girlfriend off...

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Gliding through the past and future and hopefully back to the present. (Here...

I've always had a fascination with space, land and the places we consider shelters: how the nooks and crannies and corners within our houses, apartments, and other shelters interact out with us; how...

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Glitching through the night.

You can download the game here I recommend trying the game out first before reading. I gained my love for night driving when my Dad would drive my Mom and I to where we were going to vacation. My Mom...

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Podcast Friday

CreditHey everyone, and welcome to the first podcast curating on Podcast Friday--a name in progress. Why?I come across, I think, interesting content while web surfing and I want to share that content...

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Ron Rash's Short stories and Above the Waterfall

I became a fan of Ron Rash through his short stories. They were depressive and gritty little pieces that left me feeling like shit or like I was punched in the stomach; I loved it. They dealt with the...

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The Art of the Lathe

BeautyHere are two grown men discussing "beauty"seriously and with dignity as if they and the topicwere as normal as normal topics of discussionbetween men such as soybean prices or whythe commodities...

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Podcast FRIDAY!

CreditT-t-t-time for another podcast Friday! In which I share individual episodes of podcasts I thought caught my ears.I decided to same format like last time. I enjoy just displaying quotes because...

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