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Comic books from the 1960s and ’70s, even the good ones, often ask contemporary readers to bring to them some degree…

The great joy of reading Soft X-Ray/Mindhunters (Koyama Press) is in not really knowing what’s going on. Characters…

The Italian cartoonist Gipi is still an unfamiliar name for most American readers. His work first became available…

In Blackbird Days (Fantagraphics Books) the Italian master Manuele Fior plays with form and style in a series of…

The first story in Yellow Negroes And Other Imaginary Creatures (New York Review Comics) is titled “Love,” and in a…

The history of the universe is very long and complicated, but it is done no favors when represented as the steady,…

As far as Roman Muradov comics go, Resident Lover (Kuš!) is fairly straightforward. Only 28 pages long, the comic…

Red Colored Elegy (Drawn & Quarterly) is the longest sustained narrative produced by author Seiichi Hayashi, a…

In comics, bodies can contort and shift and slide in every way imaginable—changing in size, proportion, color, or…

Comics adaptations are almost as old as the form itself, with fairy tales, novels, and other literary works having…

Serialized on the Study Group comics website, Farel Dalrymple’s Proxima Centauri - Part 1 bears an unspecified…

Escapism has long been a driving tenet of comic books, but as the medium has evolved, creators have started to see…

Something about this year made reading books feel not just crucial, but a little bit transgressive. Maybe it’s the…

In the European and Japanese markets, comics about cooking aren’t uncommon. Take, for example, Yuto Tsukuda and Shun…

Over the course of the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other country in the…

In Steven Soderbergh’s two-part biopic, Che, the Argentine revolutionary is rendered as fully human. Walking the…

The Argentine director Lucia Puenzo once described the Nazis’ political project as an attempt to “modulate” the…

Elliptical, opaque, and episodic, I’m Not Here (Koyama Press), the latest comic from the enigmatic GG, wraps itself…

Savage Town (Image Comics) fancies itself a pulpy crime yarn—in fact, it’s so in love with the idea of itself as an…

There’s a real temptation to just tell people to read Mitch Gerads and Tom King’s Mister Miracle #1 (DC) and leave…