Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #56: The Comic Nebula
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #56 by Drew Barth The Comic Nebula I mentioned last week how Nextwavewas unique due to its theme song, so what can we do with a graphic novel that includes a tiny vinyl record that can accompany a reading? Quite a lot, actually, as John Pham’s J+K has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #55: We All Live in the Shadow
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #55 by Drew Barth We All Live in the Shadow Do you remember when Marvel comics was headed by someone who wasn’t a stooge for Donald Trump? I remember those years fondly—when I could pick up a Marvel book and not worry about my money going to Ike… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #54: Reaper of Tears
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #54 by Drew Barth Reaper of Tears Kelly Sue DeConnick is one of the best writers of this century. Emma Ríos is one of the best artists of this century. Pretty Deadly: The Rat has recently wrapped, and no other series that has come out that has so… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #53: The End of the End of the World
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #53 by Drew Barth The End of the End of the World It’s 2020. The end of the world feels like it’s breathing down our necks. Let’s assuage those feelings by talking about a different end of the world: East of West. I’ve talked about the series early… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #52: Tokyo Roommates
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #52 by Drew Barth Tokyo Roommates The slice-of-life genre has become a staple of manga for decades now. Small stories on the incongruities and oddities of everyday living coupled with a hint of comedic absurdity has turned a genre that focuses on quieter moments into one of the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #51: Another New Year.
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #51 by Drew Barth Another New Year. It is another new year. Oh god, it is a new decade. And, as always, there’s new comics to get excited about and a new decade of comics to see come into existence. The comics releasing this year are the ones… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #50: The Low Horror
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #50 by Drew Barth The Low Horror The year has come to a close. The weather is sort of growing colder. The holidays are here. So now it’s time for spooks once again. It’s difficult not to want to dive back into the spooks when there’s a new… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #49: Live from Miami Part 3—Kat Verhoeven
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #49 by Drew Barth Live from Miami Part 3—Kat Verhoeven From webcomic to brand new book on your shelf, Kat Verhoeven’s Meat and Bone is one of the most recent webcomics to make the leap to published book. From its dialogue to its color palette to its subject matter,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #48: Live from Miami Part 2—David Heatley
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #48 by Drew Barth Live from Miami Part 2—David Heatley David Heatley’s Qualification is easily one of the strongest graphic memoirs to come out in recent memory. This autobiographical story spanning Heatley’s life takes us deep into the world of 12-step programs, addiction, and the people who qualify at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #47: Live from Miami, Part 1–Patrick McDonnell
Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #47 by Drew Barth Live from Miami, Part 1–Patrick McDonnell Every day for as long as I can remember, it has been difficult to go through a newspaper every morning and not see Earl or Mooch looking back from the three-panel joy of Mutts. Beginning twenty-five years ago, Mutts is… Continue reading
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