All PostsContent Topic: minicomics
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Yes and Hypnotizing by Aidan Koch
Koch, Aidan. Yes. Self-published, 2009. 16p with silkscreen cover. –. Hypnotizing. Self-published, 2009. 8p. Back in September I reviewed a minicomic and a webcomic by Aidan Koch. I emailed her after that and got a few more recent minicomics. One is called “Hypnotizing” you can read it at Flickr, starting with page one (though note [...]
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Archaeology by James McShane
McShane, James. Archaeology. Self-published, 2009. (You might be able to get a copy from him through his blog, though it is an edition of 100, so it may be gone by now.) –. James McShane: Selected Comics 2003-2008. Self-published, 2009. (You can purchase ($4) or download (free) at his blog.) Back at MoCCA 2006 I [...]
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Exploding Head Man by Jason Overby
Overby, Jason. Exploding He[a]d Man. Self-published, 2009. 96p for $6 from discretefunk.com. This is going on my best comics of 2009 list, no question. Jason Overby impresses me more and more with each new comic of his I see. (Beautiful piece in the Abstract Comics anthology, by the way.) I’ve been sitting on this one [...]
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Warmer and Little Flashes by Aidan Koch
Sometimes I read a comic and it reminds me that comics can be narrative without being clear, character driven, or plot-based. Comics narratives can be abstract, allusive, elusive, elliptical, yet still visual rich and… poetic. Warren Craghead’s work always brings this to mind, though I’ve yet to manage a post on his How To Be Everywhere which will do justice to the book. On some recommendation–or perhaps I was just ordering some other minicomics and wanted to make the postage worthwhile–I bought a copy of Aidan Koch’s Warmer a few months back. It got lost in the piles and shelves of my office until her name showed up again online, first at Arthur Magazine (where Jason Leivian of Floating World Comics in Portland does some comic editing) and then at TopShelf 2.0 (both actually showing the same short comic). So I reread and reread.
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Solipsist’s Doodles by Jason Overby
Overby, Jason. Solipsist’s Doodles. 2008. 5.5″ x 8.5″ mini, 32 pages, $2.75 from his site. After I wrote about his previous mini, Jessica, Jason Overby was kind enough to send me his most recent publication. While I was impressed by the style and disappointed by the story of Overby’s last work, the three short stories [...]
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Jessica by Jason Overby
Overby, Jason. Jessica. 2008. 28 pages. I first heard of Jason Overby through Austin English’s new 20 Questions with Cartoonists blog. Overby’s website is basically an image blog of comics pages posted on Flickr. Images like this one impressed me enough to track down a copy of his latest minicomic Jessica (his website says he’s [...]
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Cold Heat Specials
Jon Vermilyea and Frank Santoro. Cold Heat Special #1. 11″ x 16″, 16 p. $3. Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro. Cold Heat Special #3. 5″ x 8.5″, 16 p. $3. Chris Cornwell. The Chunky Gnars: A Chocolate Gun Tribute. 7.125″ x 5.5″, 16p. $3. Posts following up on my best of 2007 list seems to [...]
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Trains Are Mint
Trains Are Mint… by Oliver East. Rolling Stock Press. If the reader takes Oliver East’s comics at their face value (and I do), they are autobiographical accounts of walking. In issues 2, 3, and the forthcoming 5 (of which I have a 12 page preview) he walks around parts of northwestern England following the train [...]
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Trains are Mint
Awhile back, Tom Spurgeon linked to Trains Are Mint #4 by Oliver East. About 100 pages of ink and watercolor wash accompanying text about a narrator camping around Norway. The whole thing’s online so go read it. Despite the lack of much in the way of story, the narrative voice is enough to keep the [...]
