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Aug 31, 2023 | 
pressofatlanticcity.com | Léonie Bischoff |Chris Barsanti
BOOKS | REVIEWS'The Talk'By Darrin Bell (Henry Holt, 352 pages, $29.99)Before Darrin Bell created the comic strip "Candorville" and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, he was a kid who wanted to think the best of the world but kept getting tripped up by its racism. Black and Jewish, academic and athletic, Bell did not slot into the stereotypes associated with his California upbringing in the 1980s and '90s.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Bill Griffith |Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado
Bill Griffith. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4590-4One master of comics arts pays tribute to another in this inventive graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), creator of the long-running strip Nancy. Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) and his Zen surrealist nonchalance might seem an odd fit for the ostensibly square Bushmiller.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise
Edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart. Rose Metal, $24.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-941628-29-4Poet and cartoonist Ervick (The Keeper) and Sequential Artist’s Workshop school founder and cartoonist Hart (Rosalie Lightning) host a dazzling showcase of short academic essays designed to get artists and educators jazzed about the “hybrid form” of comics.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise
Navied Mahdavian. Princeton Architectural, $25.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-79722-367-4New Yorker cartoonist Mahdavian debuts with a charming, meditative graphic memoir that recounts three years he lived in the rural Midwest.
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May 30, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise
Ben Nadler. Chronicle, $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-797-20524-3This appetizing graphic guide from Nadler (Heretics!) lays out a humorous and informative history of the Jewish deli in North America. With sections that include meat, fish, bagels, schmear, and dessert, the primer is populated by talking sandwiches and humans drawn digitally with triangular noses, boneless arms, and a variety of historical dress.
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May 30, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sloane Leong |Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado
Ignatz winner Jayne (Trans Girls Hit the Town) and colorist Sloane Leong (A Map to the Sun) team up for a fast-paced sapphic space adventure rom-com. Commander Sugimoto and her chief engineer Mischa Polyakov have toiled for years in a military task force called LSBN (Land-Based Subterranean Beast Neutralizer). The team has been constructing a huge female robot fighter called Unit Saffron, intended to combat a race of giant monsters called Colossi that have been terrorizing Earth.
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May 19, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise
Poppy Pesuyama, trans. from the Japanese by Emily Balistrieri. Viz, $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-974738-84-7Cute, inviting artwork and a friendly narrative voice ease manga readers into this fearless and often harrowing memoir.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise
Eric Kostiuk Williams. Secret Acres, $21.95 (232p) ISBN 979-8-98-5586-33-6Williams (Condo Heartbreak Disco) documents and celebrates Toronto’s queer nightlife from 2012 through 2022 in this fabulous mélange of his eye-popping commissioned event posters, heartfelt autobio comics, and insightful guest essays from more than 30 event planners, artists, and activists.
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Jan 29, 2023 | 
world-today-news.com | Léonie Bischoff |Manon Debaye
The Fauve d’or for the best album of the FIBD 2023 devotes this year “The Color of Things” by the Swiss author, Martin Panchaud. His publisher, Ça et Là, sees one of the works he publishes awarded a Fauve d’or for the second consecutive year. The jury of the 50th edition of the FIBD this year awarded its most prestigious prize, the Fauve d’or for best album, to The color of things by Martin Panchaud (original title: The color of things).
