Writer: Joe Casey Artist: Ryan Quackenbush Image Comics, 2023 IMAGINE A BOX of a room with an artist standing in the center midst buckets of paint staring at the white walls. The rectangular shape makes you stand close as the artist slabs paint, shade after shade, scoping into the distance to the far ends, where … Read more
Creator: Sid Quade Self-published, July 2023 Giles Gridley and his sister Alexandra are of the Kaftar people, who live in a desert city reminiscent of Timbuktu. The story begins with Giles rummaging around his house, looking for things to take with him as he prepares for exile on the orders of the city’s leader, Chieftain … Read more
Writer: Neil Gaiman Art: John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, and Paul Johnson DC Comics, 1990-1991. The Books of Magic reminds us of debris on a beach, an almost random collection of dried objects bleaching in the sun. The Books of Magic was, in its first incarnation, a periodical issued by American comic book publisher … Read more
Creator: Kamila Krol Strangers Publishing 2023 STALKING THE FOREST, shhh, stay still, and you might spy fairies there gamboling in a glade, laughing and lounging on leaves, chattering in a chorus. Breathe low. Listen. And behave. This is where we enter RUSALKA – WHISPERS OF THE FOREST, a new work by creator Kamila Krol, deep … Read more