Writer: Inverna Lockpez Artists: Dean Haspiel, José Villarrubia Vertigo Comics, September 2010 2010 WAS EVIDENTLY a good year for a generation mature enough by then to tell their personal stories from around the world in graphic formats with an unusual skill and grace. The nice hardbound edition of CUBA MY REVOLUTION attracted me first by … Read more
Writer: William Dumas and community Illustrator: Rhian Brynjolson Highwater Press, September 2022 ENTERING THE LAND of the Rocky Cree people in what is now northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan provinces in Canada, and traveling back in time to the mid-1600s to see them, is a difficult journey from here on the Pacific coast living in a … Read more
Creator: Robert Buratti SubRosa Studio, 2022 As the name suggests, this title by Australian creator Robert Buratti is set in Florence. Underscoring the mystique of Florence as a setting for any form of literature, a funny thing happened to your reviewer in 2010 when he was staying in a hotel immediately adjacent to the Duomo. … Read more
Creator: I.N.J. Culbard (Based on a work by Robert W. Chambers, 1895) Self Made Hero, 2015 Surely one of the sharpest comics to be published in recent years, The King in Yellow‘s back cover introduces us to the eeriness of the subject matter: “Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle … Read more