Rumpus Comics
HORN! REVIEWS: Letters to Memory
Yamashita evokes the time of displacement, the dust, Christian charity and Christian racism, the problematics of documenting struggle, and the importance of art, laughter, and waffles. ...more
Spotlight: “Senator” by Lauren Haldeman
How much clarity do we have in our understanding of reality? What faults exist in our perception of the world? ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
[T]hese stories skewer clergy and gentry, delight in appetites, and dare to ask, an even answer, "Why am I human?" ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Parable of the Sower
The dystopia is granularly brutal, its causes and effects sadly plausible. ...more
Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Boundless
Brandon Hicks reviews Boundless, a new graphic novel from Jillian Tamaki. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Gift
A beautifully illustrated review of Barbara Browning's The Gift from HORN! Reviews. ...more
HORN! Reviews: The War on Science
Scientists and laypeople need to come together to save our democracy, if not our planet. ...more
Spotlight: “My 30-Second Meditation” by Olivia de Recat
“My 30-Second Meditation” is an account of a recent attempt at a 30-minute self-guided meditation. On a totally unrelated note, how good is Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us? ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Mrs Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway, whose art form is social life, steps outside on a June day... ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Man Without a Face
The 'how' of this story is fascinating, but the 'what' is too sad to think about: the methodical dismantling of Russian democracy. ...more
Spotlight: “Unofficial History” by Arwen Donahue
“Unofficial History” takes place on a 21st-century Kentucky farm, yet the landscape of the Holocaust is nearer than it might seem. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Nova
As the musician says to the novelist, "I was born. I must die. I am suffering. Help me." ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Plot Against America
It's as if Roth, in 2004, had inhaled a Delphic vapor to bring us this vision of an alternate then so eerily like our now. ...more
Spotlight: Eamon Murphy’s “The Test”
“The Test” tells a brief, hypothetical history of the human civilization in the wake of an ominous interaction with an intergalactic deity. ...more
Spotlight: “Mary Tyler Moore” by Janice Shapiro
As a teenager in the early 1970s there was no one I wanted more to be than Mary Tyler Moore. I was heartbroken by her recent passing. I still wish I was her. ...more
HORN! Reviews: Fahrenheit 451
Here's a vision of a nightmare Benthamist future where nothing is allowed to be slow or sad... ...more
Spotlight: “Good Grief” by Janice Shapiro
"Good Grief" is a chapter out of a graphic memoir that tells the story of a life through its author's many crushes. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: NW
This is an important work about the urgent need to hold on to your life and your morals at the same time. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Camanchaca
HORN! Reviews brings us another beautiful illustrated review, this time of Diego Zúñiga's Camanchaca, translated by Megan McDowell. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Long Walk
What started as an update of "The Lottery" for the Vietnam era is now a guidebook to a country that has obviated satire. ...more
Spotlight: “Short, Illustrated Love Stories” by Daniel Brauer
[A] series of short-short stories that could conceivably be considered to be about love, if by "love" you also mean lots of other things. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Wangs vs. the World
"Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?" ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Trouble With Lexie
But we don't always behave rationally; sometimes we let pheromones, Klonopin, and the Yahtzee gods decide for us. ...more
Spotlight: “Distance” by AshleyRose Sullivan
“Distance” is part of a growing collection of graphic essays in which AshleyRose Sullivan tries to make sense of her oddball family history by looking at it through the lens of popular culture. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Revolutionaries Try Again
Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more... ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
This book is the product of twenty-three years of writing and running—6 miles a day, 6 days a week. ...more
Spotlight: VHS Starfield: Escape from the Dome
Artist, writer, and illustrator Pip Craighead shares an installment of VHS Starfield, a series of comics describing a fictional sci-fi film franchise from the 70s and 80s. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Unbearable Splendor
Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion... ...more
