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Review: Monstress, Book One, by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

5/10 A review of Book One, which comprises Volumes 1-3, or Issues 1-18 Monstress is a full-blown fantasy epic, set in a complex secondary world of roughly renaissance or early modern times, and full of arcane magic. A very popular … Continue reading →

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Series Review: Blacksad, by Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guardino

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

A review of: Blacksad is a series of noir hardboiled detective stories, very much in the style of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, and stars a cynical private investigator named John Blacksad. The comic drawings dive with relish into all … Continue reading →

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Jim Woodring – One Beautiful Spring Day (2022) Review

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

Comprising:  A few weeks ago I reviewed the first set of Jim Woodring’s disturbing Frank comics: The Frank Book (2003). While the stories in that collection were unique and the story of the author himself even more interesting, I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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The Frank Book (2003) by Jim Woodring

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

The Frank Book is the essential collection of the first phase of Jim Woodring’s Frank comics, collecting 37 short stories. This will be one of the strangest and most disturbing comics that you will ever read, even though Frank himself … Continue reading →

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The Sandman, Vol. 7 & 8 (“Brief Lives” & “World’s End”) by Neil Gaiman

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Brief Lives (1994) “What could possibly go wrong?” Is what Dream asks his butler Lucien when he is about to embark on a journey with his crazy sister Delirium to find their long lost brother Destruction. That has trouble written … Continue reading →

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The Sandman, Vol. 5 & 6 (“A Game of You” & “Fables & Reflections”) by Neil Gaiman

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

A Game of You (1993) This one is an excellent example of Gaiman taking some side characters and some earlier introduced throwaway concepts and expanding that all into a new story-arc. A Game of You has a lot in common … Continue reading →

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Reviews: Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi & Persepolis (2007) the film adaption

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Persepolis is often mentioned in the same breath as that other autobiographical graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Very understandable, as Persepolis chronicles the childhood of writer Marjane Satrapi as she grew up in Iran in the 1980s as the … Continue reading →

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Review: Diosamante (1992) by Jean-Claude Gal & Alejandro Jodorowsky

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Man, Jean-Claude Gal can draw, man. He must be among the greatest comic book artists of all time. Previously I read Armies (1977-88) which was his first work and the artistry that he put on display in that series was … Continue reading →

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Review: Paper Girls (2015-’19) by Brian K. Vaughan

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 1988. Halloween. Four newspaper delivery girls are quite annoyed with all those stupid jerks from school with their stupid halloween masks. They team up to stay safe, and they have a job to do: delivering their newspapers around the … Continue reading →

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Review: Armies (1977-’88) by Jean-Claude Gal & Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

This is a highly regarded series of comics that was once published in the French Métal hurlant (Heavy Metal in US) magazine. The writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet was one of the founders of that anthology magazine and he “discovered” the artist … Continue reading →

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