Category: Other Publishers

Written by François Rivière
Art by Serge Micheli
80 pages, color
Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

When I was very small, one of my favorite books was a children’s edition of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The idea of exploring the underwater lands of the world was fascinating, and while it was unfortunately a slightly dumbed-down version of the book, it still had enough of Verne’s story to captivate my mind. When I saw that François Rivière and Serge Micheli had created Voyage into the Deep, a fictionalized telling of Verne’s inspiration for the book, I was suddenly a six-year old boy all over again.

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By Ursula Murray Husted
56 pages, two-color
Published by Apocalyptic Tangerine

I consider myself very lucky in that I didn’t have any relatives close to me die until I was an adult. The grief of that sort of loss is always difficult for me to handle now, but the idea of doing so when I was more emotional and still trying to figure out life is a near-terrifying thought. Reading Ursula Murray Husted’s Making Rain, though, gives me a glimpse into one possible outcome of what such an experience at a younger age would’ve been like.

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By Mike Kunkel and Randy Heuser
56 pages, color
Published by The Astonish Factory

There are probably a million jokes about where socks that go missing in the dryer end up… possibly two million. Just when I thought I’d seen every permutation, though, along came Mike Kunkel and Randy Heuser’s The Land of Sokmunster. The idea of a land full of lost socks isn’t the big hook that got me, mind you; it’s how Kunkel and Heuser use it as the core of an adorable story about responsibility and friendship.

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By Scott Christian Sava
48 pages, color
Published by Astonish Comics

Computer-generated comic book art is certainly not a new innovation in comics. The first ones to receive press were books like Iron Man: Crash and Batman: Digital Justice, both of which were about… surprise surprise… computers. So it’s with that in mind that if I had to pick the best thing about comics created on a computer in this day and age, it would be the fact that they aren’t all about computers. A computer never shows up center stage in The Dreamland Chronicles #1, and hopefully Scott Christian Sava will make sure one never does.

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By Craig Bostick
12 pages (#1), 24 pages (#2-3), black and white
Published by Aquaboy Drawings & Design

Some comics are fun to read. Some are enjoyable. But only a rare few fall into a special category, which is snazzy. Trust me, when you find a snazzy comic, you’ll know it, and that’s exactly what Craig Bostick’s Go-Go Girl is.

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By Pascal Croci
88 pages, black and white
Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.

Writing about the Nazi concentration camps of World War II is a difficult task. Not because of the lack of facts or material, but because of the emotional weight that they carry. Similarly, it can be difficult to review such a work either on a personal or professional nature. It’s all right to dislike a book on its technical merits while still appreciating the work and emotion that went into its creation. It’s with this in mind that with Auschwitz, I feel that I can say that while Pascal Croci has certainly poured his heart and soul into the book, the end result fails to come together.

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Written by Tim Seeley
Penciled by Stefano Caselli
Inked by Sunder Raj
48 pages, color
Published by Devil’s Due Publishing

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has talked in great detail about how he created the character as a reaction to one of the staples of slasher horror movies: the helpless cheerleader being slaughtered by the monster. One gets the impression that’s the same genesis that Tim Seeley had for Hack/Slash. The question is, have Seeley and company managed to create a property that can achieve the same level of popularity?

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