Comics for Grownups

Joshua Malbin and Joe Wessely
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Reviews and discussion of comics and graphic novels, everything but the big superhero comics.

  1. 03/04/2020

    Episode 101: Veasna, Smith and Reinmuth, Aldeguer

    We review Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank Smith and Jared Reinmuth, and After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth by Hélène Aldeguer.

    58 min

  2. 01/06/2020

    Episode 100: Best of the 2010s

    Alex rejoins Joshua and Joe to run down our roughly 14 favorite books and cartoonists of the 2010s: Eleanor Davis, Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart, Anders Nilsen, John Hanciewicz, Digger by Ursula Vernon, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris, Marion Fayolle, Frank Santoro, Joe Sacco, the comics journalism of The Nib, My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, and Marcelo D'Salete.

    57 min

  3. 12/09/2019

    Episode 99: Bunjevac, Noomin, Mardou, Boyd, Barajas

    We review Bezimena by Nina Bunjevac, Drawing Power edited by Diane Noomin, Sky in Stereo vol. 2 by Mardou, Chicken Rising by D. Boyd, and La Voz de M.A.Y.O. by Henry Barajas.

    51 min

  4. 11/27/2019

    Episode 98: Davis, D'Salete, Healy, Willumsen

    We review The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis, Angola Janga by Marcelo D'Salete, Americana by Luke Healy, and Bradley of Him by Connor Willumsen.

    53 min

  5. 10/21/2019

    Episode 97: Delporte, Moore, Daniels, Passmore, Allaby, Mandaag

    In this episode we touch on This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte, Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet by Anne Elizabeth Moore, BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore, Martin Peters by Patrick Allaby, and The Follies of Richard Wadsworth by Nick Mandaag.

    58 min

  6. 08/16/2019

    Episode 96: Jacob, Lust, Lin, Jason

    We review Good Talk by Mira Jacob, How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust, Pope Hats #6 by Hartley Lin, and O Josephine! by Jason.

    1h 4m

  7. 06/16/2019

    Episode 95: Villadsen, Schrauwen, Ferraris, Chiocca

    In this episode we review The Sea by Rikke Villadsen, Parallel Lives by Olivier Schrauwen, and The Scar: Graphic Reportage from the U.S. Mexico Border by Andrea Ferraris and Renato Chiocca.

    32 min

  8. 05/28/2019

    Episode 94: Buhle, Max, Griffith, Brown

    In this episode we review Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Paul Buhle and Steve Max, Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead by Bill Griffith, and Cannibis: The Illegalization of Weed in America by Box Brown.

    47 min
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Reviews and discussion of comics and graphic novels, everything but the big superhero comics.

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  • Creator
    Joshua Malbin and Joe Wessely
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2020
  • Episodes
    90
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Comics for Grownups