World Comic Book Review

25th April 2024

All Tomorrow’s Parties (review)

Creator: Koren Shadmi Humanoids, August 2023 This title is a harsh, embarrassing, wonderful documentary. All Tomorrow’s Parties details the rise and fall of avant-garde 1960s band The Velvet Underground. This is publisher Humanoids’ promotional blurb: An examination of some of New York rock’n’roll’s most iconic figures—The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol—and the relationship that distorted … Read more

Morrison Hotel (review)

Writer: Leah Moore Artists: Various Doors Property 2021 WHAT A TRIP flying high with poet singer rockstar criminal lover Jim Morrison across the stage and over the crowd in flashing pastel colors while the singer chants “he went down south and crossed the border, left chaos and disorder, back over his shoulder” in time with … Read more

Rebel Rebel: The Graphic Biography of David Bowie

Creator: Con Chrisoulis Independently published, August 2020 MINIATURIZED REPRESENTATIVE ART in painting and figures, often fashioned in jewelry and worn as a talisman, at times achieves an incredible veracity to detail to portray the likeness of the original subject, like a tiny ship in a bottle. This is the perfect effect in the graphic panels … Read more