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45 Days Of CCS, #11: Daryl SeitchikAnyone who's followed my reviews over the years will know that Daryl Seitchik instantly became one of my favorite cartoonists from the very...
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45 Days Of CCS, #10: Ana TwoAna Two's comic Playtape is a masterful example of psychological horror that evolves into CNC kink. There's an attention to detail that heightens...
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45 Days Of CCS, #9: Wayne CarterWayne Carter's Ben is a hilarious takedown of a character that the reader slowly learns is not exactly what it might seem at first. On page after...
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45 Days Of CCS, #8: Kristen ShullOne of the things I like most about Kristen Shull is her genuine sense of curiosity about the world. She's not one to make assumptions, and this...
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45 Days Of CCS, #7: Colleen Frakes, Coco Fox, Mary Shyne, Carl AntonowiczToday's entry features short reviews of very short minis by a number of creators. Most of them are in the middle of longer projects, and these...
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45 Days Of CCS, #6: Go Press Girl!Today's entry is the initial output of an exciting new publisher, Go Press Girl! Spearheaded by Violet Kitchen (editor) and Rachel Bivens...
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45 Days Of CCS, #5: Dylan Sparks and Sage ClemmonsDylan Sparks is a 2024 CCS student whose cartooning occupies the space between love and horror. In particular, their comic Echoed...
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45 Days Of CCS, #4: Gabrielle Tinnirello and Al VarelaAl Varela 's style features big-eyed characters, bright colors, and hearts worn on sleeves. It has a deeply humanistic quality to it, as...
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45 Days Of CCS, #3: Jarad GreeneJarad Greene is a cartoonist who was obviously going to go on to success doing YA and middle-grade comics even when he was a student at CCS....
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45 Days Of CCS, #2: Johna MandelJohna Mandel is from the class of 2023 from CCS, and her mini Capture Culture, is the first time I've gotten to see her work. It's very much...
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45 Days Of CCS, #1: Ashley JablonskiI am kicking off this year's feature on the students and alumni of the Center for Cartoon Studies by first announcing that due to the volume of...
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Jonathan Baylis' So Buttons #13There's a real throwback feel to the latest edition of writer Jonathan Baylis' So Buttons . (Poor Baylis chose a silly, throwaway title for this...
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Alaina Ewins' Night ThingsNight Moves , by Alaina Ewins , is a delightful romance comic in a fantasy/magic setting. The plot, surrounding classmates Spica and Muna, sees...
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Pow Pow Week: Francis Desharnais' Little RussiaFrancis Desharnais' Little Russia is the final volume I'm looking at in this series on Pow Pow Books. That publisher certainly has a particular...
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Pow Pow Week: Éloïse Marseille's Naked: The Confessions Of A Normal WomanÉloïse Marseille's Naked: The Confessions Of A Normal Woman is a chronicle not just of her history of desire and sex, but also a memoir...
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Pow Pow Week: Sophie Bédard's Lonely BoysSophie Bédard's Lonely Boys is a hilariously misleading title, since men barely figure into the narrative at all. Instead, it's another...
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Pow Pow Week: Sophie Bédard's Almost Summer 1Moving on to a different Pow Pow Press artist, Sophie Bédard has a style that I can only call "compulsively readable." She specializes in...
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Pow Pow Week: Zviane's Going UnderThe melancholy at the heart of Zviane's in For As Long As It Rains is magnified in her previous book, Going Under . The fleeting moments of...
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Pow Pow Week: Zviane's For As Long As It RainsThere's a rich tradition of comics from Montreal that takes its shape both in a wild & unruly underground (most notably with the late...
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Brian Canini's Airbag #1Brian Canini's Airbag is the sort of one-person anthology series that was initially popular in the 80s and 90s and has seen a resurgence in...
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Danny Ochoa's Molly & JoDanny Ochoa's Molly & Jo In: "Let's Sell Some Meth" is definitely a throwback. The title (and the story, to some degree) feels like a...
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Leigh Luna's Clementine FoxBack in 2013, I wrote this of Leigh Luna, who at the time was still an undergrad at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD): " Luna...
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Six Mini Comics from M.S. HarknessThere's no question that M.S. Harkness is on a hot streak right now. Her latest memoir, Time Under Tension , is about to be published by...
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Lost Diamonds #2 by Ellen LindnerAs I've noted before, Ellen Lindner has really found an interesting new niche with her baseball comics. Her latest issue (#2) of Lost Diamond s,...
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Minis: Wenting LiBoth of Wenting Li's minicomics here ( Diary Fantasy and Libra Szn ) are not only visually interesting in a Riso style, they are also...
