New review today for Career Shoplifter by Gabrielle Bell, and considering how many comics/books I’ve read from her over the years, it’s odd that this is only the fourth one I’ve reviewed. Yeah surprise, I read all kinds of comics that I don’t review. Also there’s an election coming up on 4/1. Yes, again! Meaning that I most likely won’t have any reviews up next week, but if you live in one of the many states having an election, please participate. If it’s not obvious yet, there are a whole lot of things that we take for granted in this country that are rapidly disappearing, so exercise that right while you have it, won’t you?
Update for 3/25/25
March 25, 2025New review today for Santos Sisters #8 by Greg and Fake Petre, and hey, the collection of the first five issues is available from Fantagraphics now if you want to get caught up.
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“Update” for 3/23/25
March 23, 2025I had a couple of things to announce and no good place to put them, so how about right here and now? I’ve been doing reviews on this here website for almost 24 years now, and in that time I’ve reviewed a whole lot of autobiographical comics that people may have concerns with later in life, for whatever reason. None of my business why, really! I mention this because I just took down a couple of reviews at the request of an artist, so I wanted to make it clear to everybody: if you’d like me to remove one or more of your reviews, just ask me! I’m always happy to do it. Sure, I like to think of this as a big historical archive, but let’s be honest here. This is a website. If society goes away, nobody is going to find a copy of this in the ruins. In other news, if you’re reading this at some point in the next several hours, a big Fantagraphics sale snuck up on me, the one they do where they give you a $50 gift card for every $50 you spend. So it’s basically a half off sale, with the only difference being that the “half off” comes later. With the books they’ve already put out this year, and the books yet to come, this should not be missed. OK, reviews coming later this week, bye!
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Update for 3/19/25
March 19, 2025New review today for When to Pick a Pomegranate by Yasmeen Abedifard, and I think I’ve finally typed “pomegranate” enough times now where the spelling makes sense. Huzzah for personal growth!
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Update for 3/17/25
March 17, 2025New review today for The Big Red Machine, Grandma, and Me by Terry Eisele and Brian Canini. It’s one of the books that Brian sent me ages ago and I’ve been meaning to get to for just as long. Does this mean that I’m getting closer to reviewing all of the books that he’s sent me? Ha ha no. But I’m trying!
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Update for 3/13/25
March 13, 2025New review today for Fascination by Fran Lopez. And just putting this on the radar for everybody, as I’ve forgotten more than a few times in recent years: SPACE in Columbus is going to be the last weekend in April. It’s always a solid comics show, so take the weekend and visit it, why don’t you?
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Update for 3/11/25
March 11, 2025New review today for Exits by Daryl Seitchik, also from the Spit and a Half store. Did you guess correctly and buy yourself a copy before the review?
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Update for 3/7/25
March 7, 2025New review today for “A Monty” by Zak Sally. Even though this was Spit and a Half week here, I bought enough comics from John’s shop that I’ll probably have at least a couple more of them. Why don’t you buy a bunch of comics from his store and see if you can guess which I bought and will be reviewing soon? What fun!
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Update for 3/5/25
March 5, 2025New review for the collected edition of Cankor by Matthew Allison. This has been out for a few years and it feels like I’m late to the party, but oh, what a party it is.
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Update for 3/3/25
March 3, 2025So I do this thing after every tax return where I spend a chunk of change at one of the small press comics distros, and this year is no exception. This week I’m reviewing comics from Spit and a Half, John Porcellino’s long time distro operation/website. Why don’t you do the same thing and buy a bunch of comics from the man if you can afford it? Times are tough out there. New review today for Senior Time by Kelly Froh!
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Update for 2/24/25
February 24, 2025New review today for Infinite Wheatpaste Volume 1 by L. Pidge, and I think I may have botched my plan to only review non-American comic artists this month. L. is currently living in Colorado, but her use of “colour” (and her inclusion on a mostly UK publishing website) fooled me. Let’s just say that she moved to the States recently, yeah? It might even be true for all I know! Oh, and in general, it’s election time, and yes, even teeny tiny elections take a lot of put on, so this might be it for reviews for the month. We’ll see!
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Update for 2/12/25
February 12, 2025New review today for Outer Wilderness by Claire Scully, which only leaves one book left for me to review from my Avery Hill Publishing pile, but it’s a big one. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Rob Jackson (from Monday’s review) is doing a sale of his comics on his website, which is only for people in the U.K., but if that’s you… what a deal!
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Update for 2/10/25
February 10, 2025New review today for Crowthorn: A Village Built By Orphans by Rob Jackson. Hey, as international comics month is still ongoing (at this website, anyway), if you live outside of the U.S., why not send me some of your comics to review? Or maybe even a local comic that you enjoyed but think that I might not otherwise see? If I get it soon I’ll review it this month, if it doesn’t make it here by the end of February then I’ll just review it later. My address is on the side bar, and if I get enough of them to make it possible after the end of the month, I’ll just do another “no comics from the continental U.S.” month soon. What fun!
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Update for 2/6/25
February 6, 2025New review today for Goathearded by Charlo Frade. Both of the comics this week come from a sale I took advantage of from Avery Hill Publishing last year, which is a South London publishing company with all kinds of comics that look like they’re worth checking out. I have a couple more to talk about next week, meanwhile you should try some for yourselves. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott is one that I could have sworn I already reviewed here, but a quick search here says that I did not. Huh.
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Update for 2/4/25
February 4, 2025Since this is apparently “let’s declare a trade war on our closest allies” week, I’ve decided to review comics that aren’t from America this month. Do I have enough comics to keep that promise? Let’s find out together! New review today for The Hard Switch by Owen D. Pomery (South London, if you’re curious).
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Update for 1/31/25
January 31, 2025New review today for Plastic People #16-18 by Brian Canini. Didn’t I say that I was going to check and see if I’ve reviewed more of Brian’s comics that anybody else on this website? Eh, one of these days…
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Update for 1/29/25
January 29, 2025New review today for Adventures in Gondwanaland by Maryanne Rose Papke. Her triumphant return to the website!
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Update for 1/27/25
January 27, 2025I’ve struck a new vein of comics to review in my search of moving boxes, so I should be OK for a few weeks. Still, I’m taking comics for review, as always, around here! New review today for Once Upon A Time… There Was A Mouse! by Rachel Bivens.
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Update for 1/23/25
January 23, 2025New review today for A City Inside by Tillie Walden. I mentioned that I’m low on review comics, right? If somebody doesn’t send me something soon I’m going to have to unpack some of the boxes from when I moved that may or may not have comics I need to review in them. Please spare me this task that I definitely have to do sooner or later anyway!
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Update for 1/21/25
January 21, 2025New review today for The Re-Up #6 by Chad Bilyeu and Juliette de Wit. Hey, I’m writing this review in the past. Is America still a country after the inauguration yesterday or naw?
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