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“This Mystical Experience That is Actually Very Unpleasant”: Sommer Browning Interviews KAYLA E.

1 week ago | solrad.co | Sommer Browning

Kayla E.’s Precious Rubbish (Fantagraphics, 2025) is a graphic novel memoir about the author’s childhood marked by poverty, neglect, and tremendous abuse. Her approach to this intense subject matter is layered and complex, but also somehow unflinchingly direct. It’s almost enigmatic how she conveys the pain, loneliness, and fear little Kayla feels without ever contextualizing or intellectualizing it. I think that’s partially because there are no DPS reports, no court orders, no school records.
Pure Storytelling: Josh Bayer on the work of CHRISTINA LEE and her books The Method and Object

1 month ago | solrad.co | Josh Bayer |Hagai Palevsky |Tom Shapira |Elias Rosner

Christina Lee, a busy illustrator whose work regularly appears in both new (Vox) and traditional media (Business Week, Wall Street Journal), introduced their comics to the wider world relatively recently, with a pretty solid beginner cartoonist’s mini which was followed shortly after by a major evolution with her books The Method and Object. Often at shows, I’m given work or traded comics but, sadly, I read less and less of it.
Drawing That Fire Inside: Tom Shapira on THE FAREWELL SONG OF MARCEL LABRUME by Atillio Micheluzzi

1 month ago | solrad.co | Tom Shapira |Elias Rosner |Hagai Palevsky

It seems impossible to imagine comics without Milton Caniff. It’s not just that he was popular during his time; many comics strips that were extremely popular in the first half of the 20th century are all but forgotten today. Not Caniff, though, his name and style lived on in the works of followers, which included talents like Kirby and Toth; therefore, his name lives through their modern decedents as well. His influence, as both an artist and a writer, wasn’t limited to the United States either.
Exclusive Excerpt: Single Camera Sitcom by Katie Lane

1 month ago | solrad.co | Katie Lane

Single Camera SitcomBy Katie LaneBrief Description: kitty and raymond are underemployed. Published by Comics Blogger BooksAvailable May 2025Artist Bio:katie lane is a cartoonist; she lives in new york city. SOLRAD is made possible by the generous donations of readers like you. Support our Patreon campaign, or make a tax-deductible donation to our publisher, Fieldmouse Press, today.
The Beauty of Longing: Hagai Palevsky on LES TREMBLES by Thomas Merceron

Jan 20, 2025 | solrad.co | Hagai Palevsky |Elias Rosner |Tony Wei Ling |Tom Shapira

Les trembles, Thomas Merceron’s 2024 release from French publisher Quintal, is a beguiling object: a handsome black hardcover with holographic detailing that largely refuses to indicate anything about its contents.
A World of Empty Purpose: Elias Rosner on THE LAST DELIVERY by Evan Dahm

Jan 13, 2025 | solrad.co | Elias Rosner |Tony Wei Ling |Tom Shapira |Hagai Palevsky

Felicitations! The hour is upon us. The review. The review! We must bear witness, by the rock, to The Last Delivery and the boy which leads it. What trip he makes. What task he endures. What life he spends. Oh, how he spends! Life. Life! Spend by the drop, by the cup, by the bottle. Spent on the Last House and the descent within. Descend with me. Reap what is sown.
What’s Eating You? Tony Wei Ling on the Gut Feelings of WHEN TO PICK A POMEGRANATE by Yasmeen Abedifard

Jan 6, 2025 | solrad.co | Tony Wei Ling

Yasmeen Abedifard’s When To Pick a Pomegranate arrived––fittingly––right at the beginning of pomegranate season. When my copy came in the mail, our neighbors had just started to pick their own tree’s fruit, which looked like cheerful, Halloween-y ghosts in squirrel-proof draping. A few pomegranates have stayed on the tree since then, getting progressively lonelier as their peers ripened and got picked off. There’s a whole silly micro-tragedy to be witnessed, just in walking by.
Choosing to be an Apprentice: Tom Shapira’s Gou Tanabe’s H.P. Lovecraft’s THE CALL OF CTHULHU

Dec 30, 2024 | solrad.co | Tom Shapira

The Call of Cthulhu, or to give it its full name – H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, is the fourth English language translation of Gou Tanabe’s works. Like all the previous collections, it’s an adaptation of a story by (quite likely) the most influential horror writer of the 20th century.
All There is is Pulling: Hagai Palevsky on DISTANT RUPTURES by CF

Dec 23, 2024 | solrad.co | Hagai Palevsky

A man and a woman—the former a host, the latter his guest—sit together for tea. They talk about a new menace in town, creeping around at night and invading people’s homes, “collecting things.” The woman has heard about this ‘nightwalker,’ and she doesn’t seem particularly concerned, only intrigued. She asks the man to explain his process. Man: When the moon is rich and ripe, he’ll step outside for a walk. Woman: In what direction does he go?
Books in Bites 26: What Matters?

Dec 16, 2024 | solrad.co | Daniel Elkin

Prior to becoming editor-in-chief of SOLRAD, I ran a comics criticism (among other things) site called Your Chicken Enemy. On that site, I did a capsule review column called Books in Bites which featured books that I was reading. Now this feature has a new home on SOLRAD. Here’s installment 26!SKIN DEEPby Flo Woolleypublished by Silver SprocketWhat matters? Is it the recognition of one’s existence by the world at large?