Review: Sacrifice by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose

Sacrifice – Sam Humphries (w) Dalton Rose (a) Self-published, $3.99, six-issue miniseries While self-publishing comics is nothing new, self-distributing is an altogether ballsier move.  Sam Humphries showed that he knew how to work the system, though, with last year’s one-shot Our Love is Real — a story about people having sex with dogs and vegetables.  Puerile subject-matter aside, what was shocking about that comic was how successful...

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Review: iZombie, vol 3: Six Feet Under and Rising

iZombie: Six Feet Under and Rising – Chris Roberson (w) Mike Allred (a) Vertigo, $16.99, 978-1-4012-3370-9 Chris Roberson seems to be living a charmed life in comics at the moment.  From seemingly nowhere, he appeared, working on a Fables spin-off, and a few months later, brought out this creator-owned series with Mike Allred.  With such a high-profile illustrator behind him, it comes as no surprise that Roberson is a talented writer...

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Feature: Taste-testing the Apocalypse, part 2

Elysian RaptureTo celebrate the impending apocalypse (or just a very old calendar finally running out) Fantagraphics have made a strange alliance with fellow Seattleites, Elysian Brewery, to release a series of 12 speciality beers with label art by Charles Burns. The beers are being released at a rate of one per month, with this month's brew being “Rapture” which, unlike its namesake event -- much to Harold Camping's chagrin -- arrived bang on...

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Feature: Mark Long and Jim Demonakos talk about The Silence of our Friends

First Second have recently released The Silence of our Friends, a semi-autobiographical tale about growing up in the middle of civil rights movement in the USA.  To celebrate its release, and the beginning of Black History Month, writers Mark Long and Jim Demonakos gave a presentation about the book's creation and historical origins. This video was filmed at Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery, 4th February 2012: ...

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Feature: Taste-Testing the Apocalypse, part 1

Elysian Nibiru To celebrate the impending apocalypse (Roland Emmerich made a film about it, it must be true) Fantagraphics have made a strange alliance with fellow Seattleites, Elysian Brewery, to release a series of 12 speciality beers with label art by Charles Burns.  The beers will be released at a rate of one per month, with January’s debut brew being “Nibiru” — named after a planet-sized object that is predicted to collide with the...

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Review: Hector Umbra by Uli Oesterle

Hector Umbra — Uli Oesterle (w/a) Blank Slate Books, £18.99, ISBN 978-1-906653-16-3 Blank Slate have been doing yeoman’s work of late, bringing both new British talent into publication and translating some foreign-language gems into English for the first time.  Hector Umbra falls into the latter category.  The work of German artist Oli Oesterle, it made a lot of noise when it began serialization in his native country back in 2003,...

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