Review: Baby's In Black by Arne Bellstorf

Baby’s In Black - Arne Bellstorf (w/a) First Second, 208 pp., $24.99 Part of the métier of comics has been the proliferation and filtering of mythology.  In recent years, we have abandoned our folk stories and instead have raised our own popular culture to mythic status: Elvis, James Dean and, of course, The Beatles.  In Arne Bellstorf’s graphic novel, Baby’s In Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles, he...

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Interview: Karrie Fransman

Until recently, Karrie Fransman has been a quiet voice in comics.  After self-publishing some weirdly-wonderful short comics, she honed her art through stints as a cartoonist for national UK newspapers.  This year, she debuted her first graphic novel, The House That Groaned, to great acclaim from the fan- and mainstream-press.  It's a dark, psychological novel about obsession and social entropy, all within the confines of a crumbling...

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