Rikki Norm Harper (s), Matthew Foltz-Gray (p), Oceano Ransford (l), Christine Knopp (cover) Karatepetshop.com, 2016 Disclaimer: A copy of this comic was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Out of all the stories I expected to see at the Alternative Press Expo (APE), Karate Petshop’s Rikki, a retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” was certainly…
Toward a More Intersectional Jew? A Review of Miriam Libicki’s Graphic Essays
Toward a Hot Jew: Graphic Essays by Miriam Libicki Miriam Libicki Fantagraphics Books September 28, 2016 For every human being stuck between two or more axes of oppression, the internecine fighting of intersectional politics can be as frustrating and upsetting as hatred. As sick and horrified as I felt at recent acts of Antisemitism inspired…
The Most Underrated Hot Dad in Gaming
Hot Dads are everywhere right now. In TV and movies, the Hot Dad is often (but not always) a single father. He holds down a challenging job while raising children. Or he fights zombies while raising children. Or whatever it is Ned Stark did. He doesn’t always get it right, especially with his daughter, but…
Crafty Comics Creations – DIY Holiday Decorations!
The festive season is a strange time. It can be happy and full of joy, or it can be tough, triggering, and full of tricky situations that are no fun at all. For me, it’s a mixture of both, but ever since I was a child I’ve adored the run up to the holidays, and…
Queer Books Do Sell – What’s Wrong With Your Marketplace?
Queer books sell. They sell, and they sell, and they sell. Marvel’s queer books somehow don’t sell, except, ya know, for the ones that have proven to sell well in trade. But I digress. Billion dollar corporations (in the case of both DC and Marvel) somehow can’t muster the marketing ability to sell a book…
Previously On Comics: New Franchise Adaptations and Additions
Hi readers! Welcome to the first full week of December. December?! Where did 2016 go? Other than a dumpster where it promptly was set on fire, I mean. Despite current events, however, we are seeing some bright spots in the comics world so let’s take a look at the latest news. Magical girl fans, rejoice!…
Trading Outpost: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Hello, it’s The Trading Outpost—bonus tapes for The Trades, a podcast about comics and comics adjacent topics! With me, FST, is Aaron LaRoche. We recorded this episode before the US election, so if you would like to travel back to a more innocent time to hear Aaron and I squabble about if you should sign your…
Melanie Gillman’s Stage Dreams: A Story of Queer Romance and Espionage!
There is a great deficit of happy stories about queer and trans people, so it’s extra exciting to find an artist that creates them. Melanie Gillman has been a champion of such stories, and has been building impressive body of work. They currently draw As the Crow Flies, a webcomic about a queer 13 year old navigating the…
The Last Resurrection and Millennial Adolescence
Content warning: this article discusses fictional portrayals of rape, incest, necrophilia and Nazi atrocities, along with a whole lot of religious insensitivity.
Comic Arts Brooklyn 2016: A Nice Thing to Have
Comic Arts Brooklyn is for one-day only–blink and you miss it. It’s set up in a basketball court in Williamsburg’s The Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Without the heaps of people streaming in and out or sitting outside on the stairs, you might think it’s a school. It’s more boxy than it…
When Koike Wrote Logan: X-Men Unlimited #50’s Missed Chances
X-Men Unlimited #50 Koike Kazuo, Koji Kengo, Paul Smith, Brad Anderson Marvel Comics, 2003 Koike Kazuo writing Wolverine is a thought too good to sound too good to be true. You have to believe in it, before you read it. You need to believe that good things can come from good ideas. But it was not…
Comics Academe: Hellos and Hildebrand
Editors Note: I am pleased to introduce the first article by a new Comics Academe contributor, Tiffany Babb, who will be sharing with us the view from inside academia, and specifically, the how she tackles the common academic dilemma of how to study comics when your institutional program does not have a comics studies program. Since…
