New review today for Tongue-Tied by Chandu Tennety, as SPACE month (and also SPACE week specifically) continues!
Update for 5/6/25
May 6, 2025New review today for Anxiety is the Pits! by Olivia Shamell. I think she was in the CCAD section of SPACE, which I only realized well after the fact, meaning that I should have stopped at more of their areas to get more of their comics. Well, if anybody from there is reading this and wondering if I would also ramble on for a bit about their comics, I absolutely would! Just send them to the address on the sidebar there. The bar for entry here is basically me saying “oh look, a new comic!” when I get the mail.
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Update for 5/5/25
May 5, 2025I made it to SPACE and ended up with quite a pile of mini comics, so since I noticed that I had a SPACE month last year, why not do it again this year? This may include a few books from my visit to the Laughing Ogre comic shop, but since I make the rules around here I’ve decided that this also counts. And what the heck, I’m also doing an old school reviewing week, where I review a comic a day. Believe it or not, this was the norm for the first decade of this website. Yes, it seems crazy to me now too. New review today for Metroid Gear by David G. Caldwell!
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Update for 4/23/25
April 23, 2025New review today for Glimpses of Life #9 by Brian Canini, and speaking of Ohio artists, it’s SPACE time again this weekend! I think I’ll be able to make it, although it’s a little trickier now that I’m living in Illinois again. If you’re local, check it out!
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Update for 4/21/25
April 21, 2025New review today for Dick Blaster by Jeffrey Williams and Danny Ferbert, which really got me into the Easter spirit (I often write reviews for the week over the weekend).
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Update for 4/17/25
April 17, 2025New review today for Bottoms Up! by all kinds of artists, including a whole lot of them who have been on this website before.
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Update for 4/15/25
April 15, 2025New review today for This Years is Next Year’s Last Year by Christopher Sperandio. Would you believe that this might not be the last of the comics I have to review from Cartoon Crossroads last years? It’s possible that I buy too many comics!
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Update for 4/9/25
April 9, 2025New review today for The Fifty Flip Experiment #33 by Dan Hill, as I once again try and fail to stay focused while writing one of his reviews. Maybe next time!
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Update for 4/7/25
April 7, 2025Back to the reviews after the election, and assuming I stick with this job it’s my last election until next year, so reviews should be back to normal for the foreseeable future. Assuming we keep having elections, ha ha ha I guess? Oof. Hey, it’s a new review for Midville High #7 by Matt Blair! Which was a welcome excuse to edit a couple of my older reviews of his comics, as the formatting for those got wonky somewhere along the way. One of these days I’ll get around to fixing all of them! (I will probably never get around to fixing all of them)
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Update for 3/27/25
March 27, 2025New 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?
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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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