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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ONE MINUTE TO WONDERLAND
Single-panel comics are a tough game to make a go of it in — especially if you’re going for something more, or at least other, than a quick laugh — but in his second self-published collection of them, the just-released One Minute To Wonderland, Denver-based cartoonist Karl Christian Krumpholz…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘STUNT’ BY MICHAEL DeFORGE
Annie Koyama’s “farewell tour” wouldn’t be complete without one more release from Michael DeForge before Koyama Press closes up shop, and while his latest, Stunt, may not qualify as a “book” so much as a stretched-out (in terms of its page count and physical dimensions) Chick tract, it’s…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘FOR REAL’ BY JAMES ROMBERGER
If there’s one cartoonist that learned scholars of the comics medium — and even the occasional opinionated asshole such as yours truly — wishes we could see more work from, it’s James Romberger. His understanding of the unique potential and possibilities inherent to sequential storytelling is on par with…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THETH: TOMORROW FOREVER’ BY JOSH BAYER
A tidal wave of memories real and imagined, meticulously haphazard (here we go with the contradictions) pencil, pen, and brush strokes, kaleidoscopic colors, steam-of-consciousness observations, mixed genre tropes, and weighty foreboding, Josh Bayer’s latest Tinto Press-published comic/”graphic novel,” Theth: Tomorrow Forever, may be a sequel to its shorter-titled 2014 predecessor…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘NABOKOVA’ BY TANA OSHIMA
There’s beauty in simplicity, as the cover of Tana Oshima‘s newest self-published mini, Nabokova, clearly demonstrates. It’s stark, perhaps even spartan, but deeply communicative and precisely thought through. It imparts its message with crystal clarity and nothing by way of fuss or muss. But there’s beauty in complexity, too, and…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘OPEN MOLAR’ BY LILLI CARRE
An instruction manual like no other, Chicago-based artist Lilli Carré’s Open Molar (#80 in the ongoing Mini Kus! line) is at times as utterly indecipherable as an Ikea assembly guide, but infinitely more interesting and, most crucially, rewarding. But what you come up with at the end is still…
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[KICKSTART MY ART] DEATH TRAP: THE MOST BANANAS COMIC OF 2020!
DEATH TRAP is a comic book concept that I’m confident will appeal to anybody who reads Daily Grindhouse. It’s written by Matt Miner (who wrote comics for GWAR, among many other cool things!) and drawn by Christopher Peterson, who was part of Dark Horse Comics’ GRINDHOUSE series, which is…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘TERATOID HEIGHTS’ BY MAT BRINKMAN
As a critic — particularly a critic of “underground” and/or “avant-garde” comics — sometimes you’re called upon to attempt to describe the utterly indescribable. This is a good thing — at the very least it expands one’s vocabulary, sometimes even one’s consciousness — but it’s by no means an easy…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘MONKS MOUND’ BY CONOR STECHSHULTE
Oblique connections are a recurring theme in Conor Stechschulte‘s ongoing Generous Bosom graphic novel series, but the disparate threads that run parallel to each other in that multi-faceted narrative appear to be heading for some sort of convergence as the sure-to-be-big finale approaches; in his latest self-published standalone…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘THE EMPRESS CIXTISIS’ BY ANNE SIMON
Ostensibly a sequel to her earlier, and justly well-received, The Song Of Aglaia, French cartoonist Anne Simon’s newly-released-in-English (and in color!) The Empress Cixtisis (originally published in 2014 under the title Cixtite Imperatrice) is something rather more than that, in actuality — I mean, yeah, Aglaia’s back and all, but she’s…
![[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BICYCLE DAY’ BY BRIAN BLOMERTH [GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BICYCLE DAY’ BY BRIAN BLOMERTH](http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/91QjjZ7LOaL-1.jpg)
[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BICYCLE DAY’ BY BRIAN BLOMERTH
With his debut graphic novel, Bicycle Day, Brooklyn-based cartoonist and commercial illustrator Brian Blomerth has set for himself a fairly daunting challenge: Not just to illustrate, but to visually communicate, a historical “first.” And not just any historical “first” at that, but one that involved entering another state of consciousness altogether…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘EXPELLING MY TRUTH’ BY TOM VAN DEUSEN
It’s no secret that I’ve always considered Tom Van Deusen to be one of the funniest cartoonists working today — but that’s selling him a bit short, I suppose, considering that he’s also one of the most interesting. Hiding under the modern iteration of fairly classic comic-strip style illustration that…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘BLOSSOMS IN AUTUMN’ BY ZIDROU & AIMEE DE JONGH
There’s really so much to like about Belgian writer Zidrou and Dutch artist Aimee de Jongh’s Blossoms In Autumn, recently made available in a hardcover English translation from upstart UK small press powerhouse-in-the-making SelfMadeHero — the story of late-life romance between 59-year-old widower Ulysses, recently forced into early retirement from…
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[GRINDHOUSE COMICS COLUMN] ‘GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR’ BY MAIA KOBABE
Suffused throughout with a light touch that can best be described as genuinely tender, Maia Kobabe’s Lion Forge-published Gender Queer: A Memoir comes across as anything other than the seismic shift it is in terms of consciousness-raising — and maybe that’s what makes it one in the first place. Eschewing…
