The last time I wrote about Promethea here I'd just gotten my hands on the first Absolute volume, and it had blown my mind. "It's less a narrative than a trip, fables layered on top of stories and characters' identities shifting into dreams. If Watchmen is Moore's Ulysses, then Promethea is Finnegans Wake and it demands the same experience--stop trying to make it make sense and just let it wash over you and enjoy the ride." The second ... Read More

It seems like only yesterday was New York Comic Con. But this weekend Brooklyn is hosting its own comics convention, with its own unique Brooklyn flavor. Indie creators and some of the mainstream folks too will be at the Brooklyn Lyceum for King Con this weekend doing panels, sitting at tables, selling art and comics and chatting with YOU about their work. I spoke to Regan Jaye Fishman, one of the directors of the event, about how it got ... Read More

  Drawn and Quarterly is a comics publisher, but Sonja Ahlers' The Selves isn't a comic. You could call it sequential art, I suppose, though it's mainly collages of beautiful and slightly disturbing things, its text chosen for aesthetic value rather than to tell a story. Babies, children and mothers; cute animals and Sylvia Plath quotations; 70s and 80s fashion, Holly Hobby and Princess Di all blend together--or rather, are layered on ... Read More

The first graphic novel I ever bought was Death: The High Cost of Living. I was a teenage gothette just figuring out that there were all sorts of strange and wonderful things out there that I hadn't discovered yet, and then one day my friend came to school with a little thing called the Death Gallery, full of these gorgeous pictures of this little goth girl that sorta even looked like me (if you squinted and washed out the color). What the ... Read More

If there was a book that isn't Sandman more deserving of oversized, supersaturated Absolute edition, Promethea is it. It's a sometimes-skipping, sometimes-running, sometimes-strolling journey through a dream world as wild and beautiful as Neil Gaiman's but ruled by a warrior-queen who's everything Wonder Woman ought to be. Promethea is a living story, and she's just taken over a new human host. The previous incarnations, like something out ... Read More