Life post-college is hard, full of big choices and bigger disappointments. So when aspiring writer Ben Cook can’t get a job, his life takes a major left turn into the culinary arts. It may not be what he planned, but maybe a hot sous chef and an affinity for flavours will give him the life... Continue Reading →
Graphic Novel Review: Galaxy – The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod & Jess Taylor ★★★1/2
GLAAD- nominated graphic novel, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by writer Jadzia Axelrod, artist Jess Taylor, and letterer Ariana Maher, uses the world of superheroes and science fiction as a trans allegory that is bright and full of hope. Taylor Barzelay isn’t like the other kids in school. He feels trapped in a body that’s alien... Continue Reading →
Book Review: A Boy’s Own Story The Graphic Novel ★★★★
Eighties gay-lit classic, A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White, has been adapted into a gorgeous graphic novel by Michael Carroll, Brian Alessandro, and Igor Karash, that manages to streamline the original book and strike at the heart of White’s autobiographical breakthrough. Opening in the American midwest of the 1950s and jumping forward through time... Continue Reading →
Graphic Novel Review: Liebestrasse by Greg Lockard & Tim Fish ★★★★
GLAAD Award-nominated graphic novel, Liebestrasse, which has made the jump from digital comic to print, is more timely than ever. The tale of an American in inter-war Berlin finding freedom and romance as the threat of Nazism creeps closer, is at once familiar and prescient in its depiction of an accepting and open world sliding... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Killer Queens by David M. Booher, Claudia Balboni & Harry Saxon ★★★
Inter-gay-lactic assassins turned goodies-for-hire, Alex and Max are sent on their first non-murdery job, to rescue some kids from political prison. To pull off their mission they’ll need to dodge their ex-lovers, a very angry (and fluffy) monkey, Captain Bieti (whose ship they stole), and try not to start a war when they get there.... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City graphic novel by Isabelle Bauthian & Sandrine Revel ★★★
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has had many lives. From serialized chapters in The San Francisco Chronicle, to a series of novels, TV and radio adaptations, and a stage musical by Jake Shears. Now it has been turned into a charming graphic novel by Isabelle Bauthian and Sandrine Revel, potentially the first of a... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Getting it Together by Sina Grace & Omar Spahi ★★★★
There’s something refreshingly nostalgic about the world of Getting it Together (the new comic book series from Sina Grace, Omar Spahi, Jenny D. Fine and Mx. Struble)—and I don’t just mean the range of covers riffing off everything from Friends and Sex and the City to classic Marvel comics—it’s a world of live music and... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Crema by Johnnie Christmas & Dante Luiz ★★★★
Ghosts, coffee, arson and love - it’s a funny mix in Crema, a new supernatural graphic novel from writer Johnnie Christmas and PRISM Award nominated illustrator Dante Luiz. Esme is a Brooklyn barista with the uncanny ability to see ghosts when she’s caffeinated to the hilt. When her café is about to be sold to... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Ghosted in LA Vol 1 by Sina Grace & Siobhan Keenan ★★★★
Daphne Walters is finding life in Los Angeles tougher than she imagined. Her college roommate is giving her the cold shoulder, her boyfriend dumped her and she’s being hit on by skeevy L.A. douche-bags. One night she finds some peace and quiet in the swimming pool of the seemingly abandoned Rycroft Manor only to meet... Continue Reading →