Goodbye, REM
We remember REM, 1980 – 2011.
“There seems to be a lot of fans out there that are clamouring to hear this repertoire. Comments we often hear at our shows are to the effect of ‘I never thought I’d hear this music played live.'”
Plus: the return of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Small Press Expo goes legit and more from our weekly comics correspondent Eric Buckler.
Indie comics artists like Chester Brown and Brandon Graham re-imagine Fantastic Four # 9. Plus: Womanthology: Heroic, and news about a couple of comic book stores.
The pilot for an aborted TV series based on Joe Hill’s Locke & Key comic showed great potential.
Jeff Lemire, Kate Beaton, Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto and more in our inaugural weekly comics column by Ryan Ingram.
Belgrade-born/Vancouver-based artist NeMo Balkanski launches his new collection of darkly satirical, adults-only comic strips.
Jaime Hernandez, Tony Millionaire and more alt-comics artists get in on the Marvel action.
Knocked out of Canada Reads, Jeff Lemire’s Essex County is still an essential Canadian book and a great graphic novel.
UFOs, the complete collapse of the world economy, & the Quaids.
Reviews of two new books by Gabrielle Bell and Jeffrey Brown.
And reviews of more Drawn & Quarterly graphic novels and petits livres.
