In 2012, Providence-based artist and musician C.F. began to produce a series of more than a dozen mini-comics, which he distributed via Twitter. Each mini-comic offered a take on, and expansion upon, a classic comic strip genre-from crime and sci-fi to punk and sex — all of them infused throughout …read more
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely …read more
A collection of wordless stories. Sometimes strange, sometimes absurd, but mostly funny, Garder le rythme is a follow up Tranquillement pas vite and Il faut que ça bouge. Which are all comics that include faceless characters in really small squares.
Hic and Hoc announces the festival debut of Unknown Origins and Untimely Ends, edited by Emi Gennis. This book contains over 30 non-fiction unsolved mysteries by relative newcomers and small press comics legends alike, including J.T. Yost, Julia Gfrorer, Noah Van Sciver, Simon Moreton, and Sam Spina. Featuring tales of …read more
New comics by Toronto’s Hot-Dog-Madman Keith Jones. Stupid Stories #1 contains Jones’ newest work “Donut Daze” where rival drivers clash in a garbage encrusted drag race through a post-apocalyptic roadside donut den. Scrawled masterfully in Jones’ unmistakeable erratic style. Not to be missed! Catch Keith Jones’ artshow Budsies at Capital Espresso (1349 Queen Street …read more
Art, film, and Topps trading cards all converge when Baylis goes on a journey that takes him from New York University to Bilbao, Spain, where he discovers that he might have something in common with the great 1980s artist, Jean-Michael Basquiat. Cover art by the legendary underground comics and Garbage …read more
When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter “Pirate King” Gabriele d’Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. D’Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a …read more
Sam is the grandson of a world-renowned space adventurer. Marvelled by his ailing grandfather’s stories of interstellar travel and alien romance, he models his life after these tales – even though they may be untrue. So focussed is Sam on fulfilling what he thinks is his natural destiny in life that …read more
Manhattan-born and based Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever is a collection of the cartoonist and illustrator’s ink-and-wash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s world tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential angst, and dream logic …read more