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Feature image of Menopause A Comic Treatment edited by MK Czerwiec featuring the title and subtitle against a comic background

Eisner-Winning Menopause: A Comic Treatment Works to Destigmatize

Edited by MK Czerwiec, a comics creator and educator, and with contributions from educators, healthcare workers, researchers, and artists, including the likes of Lynda Barry, Ellen Forney, Joyce Farmer, Carol Tyler, and Mimi Pond, Menopause: A Comic Treatment is a poignant and much-needed anthology on a subject that is still largely stigmatized and absent from…

Kay Sohini September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

Boom! Comics PUBWATCH: September 2021

The Boom Pubwatch is back baby! And things are booming in 2021 at this top publisher for creator-owned comics. (Sorry, I swear that’s the only time I’ll make that joke. I needed to get it out of my system.) Earlier this year Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR broke industry records and continued to be a top-selling book….

Lola Watson September 23, 2021September 21, 2021

The cover to Black's Myth #2, showing Strummer and Carly Barnhardt looking at one another. Strummer, a young woman of color with short curly hair, has her eyes open, while Carly, a young blonde white woman, has her eyes closed.

REVIEW: Humor and Genre Playfulness Elevate Black’s Myth #2

Reviews Comics Indie & Small Press

I enjoyed issue one of Black’s Myth, but I’m glad to say that issue two elevated the story from fun but somewhat unremarkable noir to something that feels truly exciting.

Melissa Brinks September 22, 2021September 12, 2021

Two panels from a comic - in the first, a white, middle-aged man with glasses is sitting in the driver's seat of a sedan, dringing from a flask, with "glug" sound effects. His cheeks are pink from drinking. In the second panel, he tosses the flask into the back seat, saying "Here we go."

Possessive #1: A Confused Haunted House Romance

Reviews Comics After Dark

Pitched as an off-beat horror rom-com, Possessive is a three-part series from Zenescope that boasts a team-up between writers Hans Rodionoff (Lovecraft, Lost Boys: The Thirst) and Adam F. Goldberg (ABC’s The Goldbergs). It follows the burgeoning romance between failed artist and abject loser Todd and the ghastly specter haunting his recently purchased fixer-upper, whose…

Magen Cubed September 22, 2021August 29, 2021

Wave coming home from getting ingredients to make sinigang riding the waves

REVIEW: Marvel’s Voices: Identity #1 and Identities in Crisis

Reviews Comics

The next installment in the ongoing Marvel’s Voices series, Identity #1 provides another set of short stories highlighting a specific minoritized community. This time, the vignettes focus on characters and creators of Asian-descent. While I love the amplification of these creators and stories, the issue made me feel lost.

Paulina Przystupa September 22, 2021September 25, 2021

INTERVIEW: Jamila Rowser’s Ode to Keisha

Comics

Jamila Rowser returns with a beautiful new autobiographical comic that explores friendship, racism, and identity as she experienced it in her Kindergarten friendship with a girl named Keisha. Illustrated by Trinidad Escobar, Ode to Keisha is a black and white story filled with the colorful emotions of a budding friendship between two 5-year-old girls living in…

Wendy Browne September 21, 2021September 19, 2021

REVIEW: Aquaman: The Becoming #1 Will Have You Hooked

Reviews Comics

I have a confession to make. This is the first comic I’ve read with Jackson Hyde.

Kate Tanski September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

REVIEW: The Trial of Magneto #2 Feels the Need for Speed

Reviews Comics

Charles Xavier jerks around with Magneto’s brain, X-Factor tries to protect the evidence, the Avengers pay a not-very-diplomatic visit to the mutant island homeland, and there’s yet one more mind-control baddie afoot. Oh, and Polaris has her Ph.D.

Stephanie Burt September 20, 2021September 19, 2021

Three comic panels. The first panel is an arrow hitting a yellow bullseye in a target, hitting the same spot as the arrow already embedded in the target. A word ballown creeps in from the left with "What do you want to do?" The sound effect is "SHUNK!" The second panel is a close up of Dani Moonstar's brown eyes, her brows furrowed. Her word balloon says, "What we should have done to begin with --" The third panel is identical to the first but has an orange background rathter than yellow. A third arrow joins the center with another "SHUNK!" A word balloon to the left reads "--make sure she's safe."

REVIEW: New Mutants #21 Picks Up the Pace

Reviews Comics

Reading this issue had me saying, “Finally!!!” out loud. The slow-burning Shadow King plotline is moving to its final act, its different strands finally weaving together — though not explosively (yet!). But still, it is a relief to get the gears in motion especially fast in New Mutants #21.

Kat Overland September 20, 2021September 19, 2021

Previously on Comics: IDW Partners With Penguin; Ignatz Winners Shine Light on Indie Comics

Comics Webcomics News Indie & Small Press

Hello again and welcome to another Kate edition of Previously on Comics! Can you believe it’s been a month since Tim Drake became canonically queer?? I have no new DC news to report, other than yesterday it was Batman Day so it’s time to revisit the eternal question of whether Batman fucks (spoiler: oh yeah…

Kate Tanski September 20, 2021September 19, 2021

A crop of an illustration from Wang XX's Seal Comics. A white seal eats a strawberry, its eyes big and round with shock. Other animals (a manatee, an octopus, and a... flower) sit around the table with the seal, some also holding strawberries. Think I've Still Got It, Wang XX, Paradise Systems, 2021. The column title lettering is laid over the artwork, and reads “A FISTFUL OF COMICS” in big yellow text. Below, in red, reads “CROWDFUNDING ROUNDUP, SEPTEMBER ’21.”

A Fistful of Comics: Crowdfunding Roundup, September ‘21

Comics Lists Indie & Small Press

Welcome to September! I’m counting my blessings this month—my building in NYC survived Hurricane Ida’s fallout relatively unscathed (though other folks still need help), the east coast summer humidity has finally abated, and the roster of crowdfunded projects in the comics space this month is a dangerous, dangerous bounty. Each of the three spotlighted projects…

Zora Gilbert September 17, 2021September 15, 2021

Four panels, or the top half of a page of a comic. Two figures with ponytails speak in all four panels. Panel 1: "So what's upstairs?" "It's actually pretty amazing." Both speakers are in front of a door. Panel 2: "I didn't even know this was here!" "Yeah, used to be the main entrance but we don't use it anymore." They are looking at a staircase. Panel 3: "It's hard to believe now, but this used to be the biggest cinema outisde of London." They walk. Panel 4: "Whoa, I never would've..." Behind them, there are obvious signs of disrepair.

REVIEW: A Movie Theater Meets Reality in Breakwater

Reviews Comics Indie & Small Press

Breakwater is not a gentle slice-of-life story, nor is it a harrowing tale of mental illness. Rather, much like many lived experiences, it’s something in between. Katriona Chapman’s soft graphite art deftly conveys the personalities and emotions of regular people facing a difficult decision, transforming the mundane backdrop of a dilapidated cinema into a stage…

Kathryn Hemmann September 16, 2021August 29, 2021

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