Beans, Greens, and a Snake in the Garden

Folk symbology and the indispensable perils of growth in Sophia Wiedeman’s The Lettuce Girl.

Topics: coming-of-age, folklore, folktales, growth, motherhood, Sophia Wiedeman, symbology, The Lettuce Girl.

Swapping Stories in Basewood

In Alec Longstreth’s fantasy world, an injured amnesiac searching for his past is sheltered by a man hiding from his own.

Topics: Alec Longstreth, amnesia, dragons, fantasy, storytelling.
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The Mucha Sutra

Mindfulness in the comics of Corinne Mucha.

Topics: autobiography, Corinne Mucha, Eastern thought, meditaion, mindfulness, philosophy, religion & spirituality.
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The RIPE Stuff

A punk aesthetic finds a stately home at Providence’s new Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo.

Topics: Alexander Danner, Allison Schulnik, Andrew White, Cara Bean, Eleri Mai Harris, Jason Viola, Jen Tong, KC Green, Kevin Czapiewski, Kristen Lepore, Krystal DiFronzo, Peter Glantz, Providence, Providence Comics Consortium, RIPExpo, Sam Alden, Talya Modlin, Tayla Modlin, Tony Breed, Whit Taylor.
Saints Love by Krystal DiFronzo

The Lord’s Work

In Saint’s Love, Krystal DiFronzo troubles the waters between faith and delusion.

Topics: delusion, Krystal DiFronzo, martyrdom, religion & spirituality, saints, visions.

All Yesterday’s Parties

Rachael Smith’s smoldering twenty-somethings try to rekindle their artistic fires with a night of calculated hedonism.

Topics: Great Beast Comics, house parties, Rachael Smith.

Jerel Dye’s Suspect Narrator

From the Clouds tells of a benevolent and somewhat doughy alien race that comes to earth to enlighten humanity. But should we believe the tale we’re told?

Topics: alien invasions, cuteness, Jerel Dye, religion & spirituality.
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Real actual mail

Wherein we examine some unusually delightful books that have lately arrived, bury an important announcement two-thirds of the way down, offer our gratitude to you, the reader, as sincerely as we can, and make a plaintive plea of the national postal service.

Topics: Alexander Rothman, Andrea Tsurumi, Cara Bean, Fereshteh Toosi, Joseph Carlough, Neil Brideau.