Kitten Construction Company: A Bridge Too Fur John Patrick Green First Second October 1, 2019 Welcome back to another edition of Melissa and Alenka Review a Comic about Cats! In past installations we talked about cats and identity in Finding Molly from Emet Comics and the delightful strangeness of Benji Nate’s Catboy. This time we leaned…
Unlikely Superhero: Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird
In 2016, before the first volume of the three-part graphic novel by world renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood was released, a lot of interviews with her flooded comics news websites, as well as the literary subsections of major newspapers. Mike Richardson described it: “a bold and unforgettable new character, paying homage to both classic pulp…
Strayed #1: A Purrrr-poseful Beginning
Strayed #1 Juan Doe (Artist and Colours), Carlos Giffoni (Writer), Matt Krotzer (Letters) Dark Horse Comics August 14, 2019 In the very far future, Dr. Kiara Rodriguez creates a kind of universal translator. She mainly uses it to talk to her cat, Lou. But when the military find out about it, Kiara and Lou are…
Captain Ginger: An Im-purr-fect but Enjoyable New Universe
Captain Ginger Volume 1 Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancroft (Letters), June Brigman (Artist), Veronica Gandini (Colours), Scott Moore (Writer), Roy Richardson (Artist), Richard Starkings (Letters) Ahoy Comics 18 June, 2019 In an apocalyptic future, humans are extinct, and only a small spaceship of cats roams the galaxy, desperately clinging to dwindling supplies and trying to escape a…
Hourly Comics Day Is A Filling Slice Of Life
Like many comics readers of my generation, I’m a product of the 90s manga boom and the subsequent middle grade graphic novel boom – I love slice of life, and I love memoir! This reading history may be why Hourly Comics Day is so popular. Hourlies are a mishmash of both genres, but with an…
Man-Eaters: Chelsea Cain Comes with Claws
Already a best-selling book author, Chelsea Cain stormed into comics with an Eisner-nominated run on Marvel’s Mockingbird that landed on Amazon’s best-seller list. It also infuriated a legion of internet trolls due to the now-infamous cover of issue 8 (plus the second collected trade paperback), where Bobbi Morse gazes out at the reader wearing a shirt that…
CATS! A Celebration of Hourly Comics Day 2018
I love Hourly Comics Day! On February 1st, many cartoonists take to Twitter or Instagram to draw comics detailing what happened during each hour of their day. There are no rules regarding format, style or consistency; some draw on post-it notes, take pictures of their sketchbooks, do fully shaded, multi-panel comics – anything goes! Hourlies,…
A Tail of Two Cat Lovers: Two Takes on Benji Nate’s Catboy
Catboy Benji Nate Silver Sprocket August 1st, 2017 A review copy was provided in exchange for a fair review.
Small Press Bites: A Girl & Her Cat, A Catgirl, and More
Something Familiar Pam Wishbow Pam Wishbow’s work is delightfully creepy, always adorned with eyes and runes and enough esoteric symbols to catch my eye from across a room. Something Familiar, true to form, is a dark and creepy comic drawn in stark black and white, its shadows often dominating each scene in a way that…
Review: Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal
Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal Ed Luce Fantagraphics November 2016 Disclaimer: Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal was reviewed using a copy provided by Fantagraphics. This is probably the raunchiest non-fuck comic I’ve read in recent years. Do not read until midnight. It is not appropriate for kids. Wuvable Oaf: Blood and Metal is the followup to…
Geek Mystique: Lifestyle News for October
Y’all, there’s so much going on this month, this is going to be a packed one, what with the Geek High Holy Day, that would be Halloween, approaching! Sure, we geeks like any excuse to cosplay and indulge our geek fantasies all year, but there’s just something about the month of October that makes all…
Cats and Identity Crises: A Review of Finding Molly
Finding Molly: An Adventure in Catsitting Justine Prado (Writer), Jenn St-Onge (Artist), Carey Pietsch (Colorist), Joyana McDiarmid (Letterer) Emet Comics If you are a poor, unfortunate soul who follows Melissa Brinks and myself on Twitter, you’ve noticed a trend in our chats. As Melissa put it best: “Roughly 80% of our conversations are about cats….