Jason
If You Steal
Fantagraphics
Norwegian cartoonist Jason follows up a decade of exceptional releases in English with If You Steal, a full-color collection of his droll and occas…
COMICS
Montreal. Drawn & Quarterly. 2015. 120 pages. Abe Matchcard thinks of himself as a “nice, misunderstood, earnest fellow.” He believes this “despite all the evidence to the contrary.” There is plen…
New York. Metropolitan Books. 2015. 153 pages. Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir may have a mouthful of title, but it’s a car…
Seattle. Fantagraphics Books. 2016. 728 pages. The social upheavals of the 1960s resulted in a variety of revolutions: in politics, the arts, and in the culture at large. Included among these was a m…
Fantagraphics Books. Seattle. 2015. 362 pages. There’s a treasure trove of Spanish-language comics south of the border lost to English-only readers. Until now, this included one of the most significan…
New York. Vertical. 2015. 413 pages. Famed writer and director Satoshi Kon is well known for his dark and whimsical films such as Perfect Blue and Paprika. His films question how we…
Montreal, Canada. Drawn & Quarterly. 2015. 776 pages. When the first issue of Drawn and Quarterly appeared in April 1990, the cultural landscape for graphic novels and serious comics was…
Madrid. Reservoir Books. 2015. 108 pages. Cartoonist, writer, and musician Miguel Brieva’s latest comic book, Lo que me está pasando, takes the form of a personal journal. In it, Brieva (b.…
New York. New York Review Comics. 2016. 160 pages. “The nostalgia for purity, the ghost of a perfect love—these are a drunkard’s despair.” Spoken by the work’s impostor protagonist’s seemingly mute “l…
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uncivilized Books. 2013. 100 pages. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uncivilized Books. 2015. 120 pages. Cartoonist David B.’s work is a study in Western culture cast in rich illustrati…
New York. Vertical. 2014. 261 pages. In Japan, where reading manga is a national pastime, there is manga for everyone, for every age. You may be familiar with the shōjo and shōnen g…
Illus. Kim. Trans. Adrian West. London. Jonathan Cape. 2015. 207 pages. Antonio Altarriba’s The Art of Flying splays open the Spanish civil war, and subsequent World War II, through the exper…
Illus. Sheila Alvarado. New York. Riverhead Books. 2015. 138 pages. Spotlighted already in 2010 as one of the New Yorker’s “20 under 40,” Peru-born and Alabama-raised Daniel Alarcón pounds ou…
Milwaukee, Oregon. Dark Horse Books. 2015. 216 pages. Two soldiers traverse an all-but-leveled city strewn with corpses of women, men, and children as the Japanese military overrun the Chinese city of…