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...
View ArticleBasil & 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...
View ArticleB+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...
View ArticleBrooklyn 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 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
View ArticleThoughts 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMilan 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...
View ArticleRembrandt - 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...
View ArticleAdvance 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...
View ArticleAdvance 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...
View ArticleAdvance 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...
View ArticleStation 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...
View ArticleWeapons 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...
View ArticleYouth 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....
View ArticleMichael 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...
View ArticleAnnihilation: 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...
View ArticleEel 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...
View ArticleGliding 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...
View ArticleGlitching 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...
View ArticlePodcast 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...
View ArticleRon 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePodcast 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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