Month: July 2013

  • Optical Sloth Reviews Look Straight Ahead

    Optical Sloth Reviews Look Straight Ahead

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    Optical Sloth Review of Elaine Will’s Look Straight Ahead “Somewhere out there is a human with no attention span who started reading this and gave up on it because they assumed that it would end up being another in a long line of graphic novels about a loser trying to get together with the girl of…

  • Failure Review on the Comics Bulletin

    Failure Review on the Comics Bulletin

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    Review of Karl Stevens’s Failure by Jason Sacks “Karl Stevens’ Failure is a real success. Collecting about 150 freeflowing strips that Stevens created for the Boston Phoenix, Failure is a wonderful portrait of middle-class, post-college, kid-free urban dwellers. Some of the strips make fun of Stevens’s or his friends’ self-absorption, alcoholism, or annoying obliviousness. Others are more observational, simply reporting his…

  • ComiXology Releases

    ComiXology Releases

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    Alternative Comics has four books on ComiXology today: Karl Stevens’ The Lodger, Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle #9 and Joel Orff’s Waterwise and Strum and Drang: Great Moments in Rock ‘n’ Roll. Check them out here!