Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

High-Low likes Darkness and Gulp!

  • The Boston Comics Roundtable's annual Hellbound anthologies have grown increasingly stylish in presentation
  • ...There are no clunkers in this collection and the editing by Moynihan and Dan Flynn carefully shuffles the stories so as to avoid repeating themes on a story-to-story basis. The duo-tone orange and blue from the Risograph printing adds to the attractiveness of the overall work. This was by far the most skilled set of contributors and the most attractive presentation of stories yet conceived for this series, a trend that I hope continues for 2014.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Gulp! Reviewed and Mentioned

  • ...there is no shortage of creatures that haunt, scare and sometimes even pull a heartstring or two. These stories are short, ranging from two to five pages, but they are far from slight. Every entry is a satisfying bit of graphic storytelling.
  • From kids high jinks to thoughtful reflections on the ways we live today to demented humor, New England is a hotbed of quality comics making these days. Here are nine cartoonists whose work stood out at the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo—aka MICE