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Dave Cooper and “Grendel Tales: Homecoming”, a strange standout in an odd career
In 1992 Matt Wagner (writer and inker) and Pat Mckeown (penciler) started publishing Grendel Warchild with Dark Horse, the latest iteration of Wagner’s Grendel character started 10 years earlier with Comico. The 10 issue series was a Lone Wolf and Cub shaped post apocalyptic epic crammed with vividly reimagined sci-fi tropes held together by palace…
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An Interview with Mat Greaves: “The Tension of Wanting to Make Stuff Versus the World Around You”
Mat Greaves is a 33-year-old cartoonist and animator living in Manchester, England. Mat is the author of the one-man anthology Blat, which saw its third issue released in July 2024, along with a host of other comics. A graduate of the University of Central Lancashire, Mat is also a founder of the Underground Kingdom Comix collective, which has released…
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Coming Soon: “Jessica Farm” by Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons has a new graphic novel from Fantagraphics titled “Jessica Farm”. Fantagraphics is calling it a “Lynchian take on Alice in Wonderland”. For those familiar with Simmons, ‘Lynchian’ may seem like a tepid descriptor but his work does often evoke a singular type of surreal dream logic and dread. Fantagraphics is also quick to…
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Coming Soon: “Blurry” by Dash Shaw
“Blurry” a new graphic novel from Dash Shaw is coming out on August 6th from New York Review Books. The comic has been in progress for seven years and Shaw describes it as a ‘continuous motion’ that starts with a man trying to make a decision about purchasing a shirt. From there the story branches…