Ant Colony by Michael DeForge is tremendous. A really strong bit of tonal balance and range, hilarious at times and existentially bleak at others, with gorgeous cartooning throughout it all. I’d been meaning to read DeForge’s work for a long time now, and I’m glad I started.
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I just got a chance to read both volumes of Ice Cream and Beast by Iggy Craig, published by PEOW, which is an absolute gem. It’s a delightfully heady and indulgent bit of comics, disarmingly casual and absurdly charming, with really wonderful cartooning.
World Map Room is the first of Yokoyama Yūichi’s books that I’ve read that has dialogue, and it’s just as gorgeously opaque and alien as his wordless work. I remain in awe of his work—the epitome of “this shouldn’t work as well as it does but somehow it’s still stunning.”
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed is an absolutely wonderful comic. A beautifully crafted story with a lovely world that feels real and lived-in, with a sharp sense for character work, heightened by gorgeous cartooning. Immediately one of my favorite comics of 2023.