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2022: Gabrielle concludes that she is a failure in life, so she might as well do what she likes for the rest of it. She spends hours at cafes covertly drawing and eavesdropping on her fellow layabouts and shirkers every…
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2022: Gabrielle concludes that she is a failure in life, so she might as well do what she likes for the rest of it. She spends hours at cafes covertly drawing and eavesdropping on her fellow layabouts and shirkers every…
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2019: Eisner nominated James Romberger (7 Miles A Second, Post York) brings a short comic story, 'The Oven,' that melds two battles fought in different eras by the great cartoonist Jack Kirby, the most prolific American…
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2023: Four years in the making, the exact duration required to bring the prized crop to harvest, Ginseng Roots reaches its finale. Craig drives across the country for his parents' 50th wedding anniversary and wrestles w…
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2022: Craig Thompson and his brother Phil reconcile, recover from illness, hire an interpreter, and reconnect for the final leg of their journey. The Jilin Province of China is the birthplace of the ginseng story. This …
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2022: Phil joins Craig during a book tour in South Korea, through Seoul and Bucheon, then extending to a research journey in rural Geumsan, the epicenter of Korean ginseng cultivation. Geumsan is the sister city to Mara…
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2020: The stratification, planting, and growth cycles of the ginseng seed parallel the seasons of childhood. Ginseng berries are gathered in the last week of summer, just before school resumes and brings with it the awk…
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2020: The fifth issue flows along the 'crimson creek' of America's history with ginseng: from the Native people's uses of the plant, to French explorers' 'discovery' in 1716, to America's initiation of trade relations w…
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2023: If you're feeling sick, The Man may be following you 1945: Daniel's friends urge him to confront his mysterious stalker. However, not all of them are convinced Daniel's symptoms are real, leading to a naive plan …
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2023: : If you're feeling sick, The Man may be following you 1945: As Daniel's sickness mounts, he is conflicted by both his family's dark past as well as his newfound fear of atomic war. Having no agency over his lif…
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2023: If you're feeling sick, The Man may be following you 1945: With the war escalating, Daniel's hallucinations grow more disturbing by the day, and The Man is getting closer, further exacerbating the boy's symptom…