High-Low

Ruby Carter's I, Candy reveals another side of the artist.

Jonathan Baylis has been writing comics for about a decade now, working with cartoonists to relate anecdotes from his life in the tradition of Harvey Pekar.

Adaptations of prose works into comics form can be tricky.

Liz Barker's first-year CCS comics are both very interesting variations of two time-tested assignments.

Most of Jeff Lok's career was spent on extremely dark, bizarre humor comics.

Some short CCS reviews for some short CCS comics: a berry silly Love Letter, by Coco Fox.

Full disclosure: Fieldmouse Press will be publishing Ana Two's horror comic Dark Room next year.

Iris Yan, on occasion, will engage in a solid gimmick for her comics.

While Cuyler Keating's comics have fantasy elements, it would be more accurate to say that she's really a medievalist.

What's most interesting about Ruby Arnone's Frankie & Jam is that, despite its origins as a formal cartooning exercise with some formal constraints, the actual comics are fluid and funny.

With Arroyo, Melody Calderon does the best kind of horror comic: one that is almost entirely dependent on its visuals to tell its story.

The Final Dot is one of the CCS group anthology projects.

Kiki is a small departure for the talented Wayne Carter.

Ana Two is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from CCS this decade (and I believe this so fervently, that we will be publishing book by them soon).

Daryl Seitchik has built up an impressive body of work since their first minis over a dozen years ago, and I was especially excited to see another "Missy" comic.

Kicking off another year of reviews of alumni and students of the Center for Cartoon Studies, it's fitting that I should start with Colleen Frakes.

Suzan Colón was a student of mine at SAW (Sequential Artists Workshop) last year, and she hit on an ingenious concept that she's working to bring to a longer form in her series Wrasslin' Centaurs.

The second chapter of Tanya Dorph-Mankey's queer wrestling epic, Count The Lights, ratchets up the tension between the intense heel wrestler Alan Jacobs and his infuriatingly casual rival Ryan Roberts.

Meg Lentz is a SAW graduate whose work focuses on queerness, mental health, and social justice.

Lewis Trondheim & Joann Sfar's Dungeon (or Donjon, in the original French) is my favorite comics series of all time.

There's only one more issue of Whit Taylor's series Fizzle to go after the fourth and fifth issues, and the fourth issue turns inward while the fifth issue has competing flashbacks and forward movement.

Jason's latest collection of short stories, Death In Trieste, once again finds the cartoonist doing deep-dive riffs into art history, pop culture, and pulp fiction.

So I recently found my copy of this perfect little minicomic, Duh!

There's a lot to take in with Kayla E.'

Keiler Roberts' first book with Drawn & Quarterly was My Begging Chart.