Creator: Jacob Michael Campbell Illustrator: Alexis Vivallo Crude Rose 2023 AN ADOLESCENT DREAM plays with images of doors scattered in the distance across a rolling meadow, and zooms in on two traveling partners on the move, a doughboy‑guy with sharp toes and fingers named Toe, and a curly cat named So Long, searching “seemingly always” … Read more
Anthology Caliber Comics 1993 A CHANCE REFERENCE sent me to the 1990s to investigate NEGATIVE BURN, a phenomenal anthology of legendary and legerdemain artists in black and white, still smoldering in the back stacks at your local comic shop. It was new to me. Maybe to you, too. Early issues of the 50-issue run of … Read more
Creator: Jim Mahfood Coloring: Justin Stewart Image Comics, 2017 THUMPING BEATS and screeching melodies push you through the swooshing tunnel of GRRL SCOUTS: MAGIC SOCKS by wired artist Jim Mahfood, till you end prostrate and exhausted, trembling on a blood‑soaked street. Your bruised mind looks warily around as shredded debris drifts peacefully to rest. There … Read more