[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLISON O’TOOLE, EDITOR OF ‘SHADES OF FEAR!’

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLISON O’TOOLE, EDITOR OF ‘SHADES OF FEAR!’


October 14, 2021    Jessica Scott

    For the newest installment of the Daily Grindhouse comics column, I had the pleasure of speaking with Allison O’Toole, co-editor of the horror anthology SHADES OF FEAR, “a collection of subtle, psychological horror comics with a focus on vibrant, emotive color.” The 11 horror stories in the collection…

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[EXCLUSIVE] COVER REVEALS FOR J.M BRANDT AND THEO PRASIDIS’ ‘SWAMP DOGS’

[EXCLUSIVE] COVER REVEALS FOR J.M BRANDT AND THEO PRASIDIS’ ‘SWAMP DOGS’


September 2, 2021    Preston Fassel

  We here at the DG are always excited to present the world with new opportunity paying homage to 42nd Street and grindhouse cinema, and I, of course, have a special soft spot for the intersection of exploitation film and literature. So imagine our delight to be able to bring…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] ‘WITCHBLOOD’ #3-4 BY MATTHEW ERMAN & LISA STERLE

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] ‘WITCHBLOOD’ #3-4 BY MATTHEW ERMAN & LISA STERLE


July 15, 2021    Jessica Scott

  I know what you’re thinking. “This is supposed to be a comics column, Jessica, not just a WITCHBLOOD column.” You’re totally right! This is a comics column where I talk about the weird, creepy, and/or deranged books I think should be on your radar. It just so happens that…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] ‘WITCHBLOOD’ #1-2 BY MATTHEW ERMAN & LISA STERLE

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!] ‘WITCHBLOOD’ #1-2 BY MATTHEW ERMAN & LISA STERLE


March 30, 2021    Jessica Scott

  If you’re in the market for some punk witches and vampire bikers — and really, who isn’t? — Vault Comics has the book for you. WITCHBLOOD is a neon- and blood-soaked saga that is equal parts BIRDS OF PREY, NEAR DARK, and a mixtape from your friend who used…

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RETURN OF THE GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!

RETURN OF THE GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN!


March 30, 2021    Jessica Scott

  Comics are a medium uniquely suited to stories that terrify, shock, disturb, and disgust, and as such I’m thrilled to bring regular comics coverage back to Daily Grindhouse. I’m a lifelong horror fan who became obsessed with comic books in college, so a horror comics column is a dream…

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[THE DAILY GRINDHOUSE INTERVIEW] S. CRAIG ZAHLER, AUTHOR OF ‘FORBIDDEN SURGERIES OF THE HIDEOUS DR. DIVINUS’

[THE DAILY GRINDHOUSE INTERVIEW] S. CRAIG ZAHLER, AUTHOR OF ‘FORBIDDEN SURGERIES OF THE HIDEOUS DR. DIVINUS’


January 5, 2021    Matt Rotman

The worlds of S. Craig Zahler are inhabited by the likes of wraiths, jackals, cannibal troglodytes, and hardboiled cops. Knights-errant traverse metaphorical and physical hellscapes, where violence only begets more violence. And under an all-encompassing cloud of dread, the universe churns toward its inescapable and apocalyptic conclusion, as punishment and…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘AND NOW, SIR – IS THIS YOUR MISSING GONAD?’ BY JIM WOODRING

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘AND NOW, SIR – IS THIS YOUR MISSING GONAD?’ BY JIM WOODRING


September 8, 2020    Ryan Carey

It’s always a tricky proposition to know what to say about Jim Woodring’s work simply because the depth and scope of his creative vision is both deeper and wider than the ability of mere language — even superlative-laden language — to keep up with. Which, yeah, is a roundabout way…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘MOAB’ BY MARA RAMIREZ

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘MOAB’ BY MARA RAMIREZ


July 29, 2020    Ryan Carey

    There’s truth in packaging, and then there’s this: Oakland-based cartoonist Mara Ramirez’s recently-released debut graphic novel, MOAB — which comes our way courtesy of Freak Comics — is formatted to look like a sketchbook/diary with a lush moleskine cover because, well, it is a sketchbook/diary with a lush moleskine…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘LONG GONE’ #3 BY SAMUEL BENSON

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘LONG GONE’ #3 BY SAMUEL BENSON


July 22, 2020    Ryan Carey

I first came across the work of Samuel Benson when, in fairness, he came across me and sent me a copy of his impressively strange full-length comic A Different Sky, a post-psychedelic exploration of altered consciousness, sci-fi high weirdness, and quasi-magical birds from a stoner/slacker perspective that struck a chord with its…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘GOBLIN GIRL’ BY MOA ROOMANOVA

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘GOBLIN GIRL’ BY MOA ROOMANOVA


July 7, 2020    Ryan Carey

Hailing as she does from Stockholm, Sweden, Moa Romanova’s name isn’t one that is particularly well-known here in the US — but I have a distinct feeling that her Fantagraphics-published debut graphic novel, Goblin Girl, is going to change all that in a hurry. Toeing a tightrope-line between pure autobio…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘DISILLUSIONED ILLUSIONS’ BY GREG STUMP

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘DISILLUSIONED ILLUSIONS’ BY GREG STUMP


June 30, 2020    Ryan Carey

    If there’s one comic that’s taken me a damn long time to wrap my head around, it’s Greg Stump’s singularly bizarre Disillusioned Illusions, originally self-published by the cartoonist in 2009 and later re-issued by Fantagraphics Underground in 2015. Folks are fond of saying that Seinfeld was a show about nothing,…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘SPEWEY’ BY JASON T. MILES

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘SPEWEY’ BY JASON T. MILES


June 23, 2020    Ryan Carey

  If there’s one thing you can say for the work of Seattle-based cartoonist Jason T. Miles, it’s that his art is consistently challenging. And surprising. And pretty near indescribable. At times even indecipherable. And, yeah, I realize that’s more than the promised “one thing.” Still, in my own defense, if…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘SOFTER THAN SUNSHINE’ BY HARRY NORDLINGER

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘SOFTER THAN SUNSHINE’ BY HARRY NORDLINGER


June 16, 2020    Ryan Carey

None of the strips in cartoonist Harry Nordlinger’s 2019 self-published “solo creator” horror anthology comic Softer Than Sunshine run more than four pages — hell, a good many of them are only a single page long — but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth contemplating. Absorbing. Soaking in. Examining your reactions…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘OLD GROWTH’ BY NIV BAVARSKY AND MICHAEL OLIVO

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘OLD GROWTH’ BY NIV BAVARSKY AND MICHAEL OLIVO


June 9, 2020    Ryan Carey

  One of those books that take all of fifteen minutes to read, hours to look at, and days to fully absorb, it’s almost easier to catalogue what Niv Bavarsky and Michael Olivo’s handsomely-produced new Fantagraphics Underground hardback, Old Growth, isn’t about rather than what it is — but if we were…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘MUD THIEF’ VOL. 1 BY LEX ROCKET

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘MUD THIEF’ VOL. 1 BY LEX ROCKET


June 2, 2020    Ryan Carey

  Originally conceived of and published back in 2015 but only recently making the rounds through some of the better “alternative” distros now, cartoonist Lex Rocket’s sturdy, riso-printed (although the cover may be offset?) mini, Mud Thief  Vol. 1, is at first glance an exercise in strict formalism, apportioned into…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘HERCULES AND THE ORBS OF WOAD’ BY DAVID KING

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘HERCULES AND THE ORBS OF WOAD’ BY DAVID KING


May 26, 2020    Ryan Carey

  After knocking it out of the park with his flawless all-ages comic Yellow Flag Intelligence Squadron, cartoonist and self-publisher David King came back in the latter part of last year with a decidedly more – mature, I guess? – offering in the form of the magazine-sized Hercules And The Orbs…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE GARDEN’ BY LANE YATES & GARRETT YOUNG

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE GARDEN’ BY LANE YATES & GARRETT YOUNG


May 19, 2020    Ryan Carey

  A collaborative effort between writer Lane Yates and artist Garrett Young that was self-published toward the tail end of 2019, The Garden is a curious and fascinating mini that weaves an utterly unique spell that exemplifies the notion of, with apologies to Dan Clowes, an iron first under a velvet…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘KING OF KING COURT’ BY TRAVIS DANDRO

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘KING OF KING COURT’ BY TRAVIS DANDRO


May 13, 2020    Ryan Carey

  There are any number of “child’s eye view” memoirs competing for the attention of the contemporary comics reader, but Travis Dandro’s 2019 debut graphic novel, King Of King Court, makes the most of that particular visual and narrative storytelling “hook,” even if the results are admittedly a mixed bag. How…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘FLOP SWEAT’ #1 BY LANCE WARD

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘FLOP SWEAT’ #1 BY LANCE WARD


May 6, 2020    Ryan Carey

    For his third release from Birdcage Bottom Books in under a year, Twin Cities cartoonist Lance Ward is once again going the autobio/memoir route, but taking more of a “long view” than he did with his tightly-focused graphic novel Blood And Drugs and it short companion/epilogue publication, The Truth…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘TEARS OF THE LEATHER-BOUND SAINTS’ (‘TAD MARTIN’ #8) BY CASANOVA FRANKENSTEIN

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘TEARS OF THE LEATHER-BOUND SAINTS’ (‘TAD MARTIN’ #8) BY CASANOVA FRANKENSTEIN


April 29, 2020    Ryan Carey

    I’ve often remarked — no, I swear, I have! — that the best cartoonists are those with no fucks left to give, but leave it to Casanova Frankenstein (or, if you’re old-fashioned, Al Frank) to prove me wrong: You see, he’s living proof that the best cartoonists are…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE BACKSTAGE OF A DISHWASING WEBSHOW’ BY KEREN KATZ

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE BACKSTAGE OF A DISHWASING WEBSHOW’ BY KEREN KATZ


April 22, 2020    Ryan Carey

    As far as studies in contrasts go, you could make a pretty compelling argument that cartoonist Keren Katz’s latest book, The Backstage Of A Dishwashing Webshow, is precisely that: Matter-of-fact, minimalist text (and even more minimalist dialogue) juxtaposed with and/or against kaleidoscopic, fluid, complex, symbol-laden artwork that eschews borders…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BECOMING HORSES’ BY DISA WALLANDER

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BECOMING HORSES’ BY DISA WALLANDER


April 15, 2020    Ryan Carey

    It might be fairly stated that Swedish cartoonist Disa Wallander appears to have one over-arching concern running through all her work, but given that said concern is the nature of the creative process itself and its centrality to the phenomenon of identity, it’s at the very least a…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE MAN WITHOUT TALENT’ BY YOSHIHARU TSUGE

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE MAN WITHOUT TALENT’ BY YOSHIHARU TSUGE


March 18, 2020    Ryan Carey

Just about any and every artist that ever lived has been plagued with periods of self-doubt and creative bankruptcy, but the truly ingenious among them have found  ways to use those dark times as inspiration — after all, if you can’t rise above it, why not explore it for all…

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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘DIARY OF A MONSTER’ BY KAREN SNEIDER

[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘DIARY OF A MONSTER’ BY KAREN SNEIDER


March 4, 2020    Ryan Carey

  When you boil the art of cartooning down to its basic elements, you sometimes end up creating work that reminds people just why they love this medium so much in the first place — provided your sensibilities as an artist are sound to begin with, of course. When it…

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