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
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HORN! REVIEWS: Unbearable Splendor
Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion... ...more
Spotlight: “Sleep Walking” by Annalise Mabe
"Sleep Walking" highlights the grays, the in-betweens, revealing that even with good intentions things can go badly. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Why the Olympics Aren’t Good for Us, and How They Can Be
...like any great idea, it has the potential to be more boon than burden... ...more
Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
"Mouth" explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Textbooks obfuscate the past, making science seem a smooth and cumulative process. ...more
Spotlight: Jon Gant’s You & Me
Told in second-person narrative, You & Me is a nostalgic and humorous collection of observations, memories, and dreams. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: My Brilliant Friend
Since I'm nowhere near the first, let me be only the most recent to entreat you to read the story of Lenú... ...more
Spotlight: “A Farmer’s Hands” by Dale Vande Griend
I grew up on a farm in Iowa where my dad has worked every day of his life. He is the hardest working yet most loving man I have ever known. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Moviegoer
...but when the only time you felt alive was the time you nearly died, what do you do? ...more
Spotlight: “Migraine Couch” by Allyson Hoffman
“Migraine Couch” reflects how daily life and memory are shaped by chronic illness. ...more
Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Panthers in the Hole
Brandon Hicks reviews Panthers in the Hole, a new graphic novel from by Bruce and David Cénou. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Before the Feast
On the eponymous night before, the sleepy town of Fürstenfelde is wide awake. ...more
The Word Cage: Horse
Introducing The Word Cage, a new comic series that will be appearing weekly, every Tuesday morning, on The Rumpus. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Pitch Dark
Start the outboard motor—it's time to go island-hopping with Kate Ennis, the postmodern Penelope. ...more
Spotlight: Gripe! Comics by Isaac Roller
Gripe! is a series of open format comics that poke gentle and not-so-gentle fun at popular culture, language, the human condition, and current hairstyles. ...more
Spotlight: Lorenzo Fonda’s “Yo Solve Cuba”
Jotting down experiences in comics form is also a way for me to assimilate and process them through my own life-filter... ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Journey Into the Past
...true love isn't necessarily impossible, but time and contingency make impossible love sadly true. ...more
Spotlight: “Nuts: A True Story” by Peter Witte
It’s more likely, though, that someone saw everything and felt sympathy that, in the moment, they just didn't communicate. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Mathilda
Yes, Frankenstein was the birth of a genre, but this book is even more visionary: centuries ahead of its time. ...more
Spotlight: A Poetry Comics Discussion
Amy Fusselman gathers four writer-artists working in the poetry comics genre to discuss the emerging form. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: We
But pollen can get inside the green wall, and so can drink, smoke, color, unsanctioned sex, and history. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: A Collapse of Horses
While they run the gamut of genres, these stories all lie in the same orbit of dark gravity... ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Bowie
HORN! Reviews brings us an illustrated review of Simon Critchley's Bowie. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
We level charges of pretension at what violates our tribal sense of normality... ...more
Spotlight: “Gravity” by Jarod Roselló
"Gravity" explores the tensions and sensations of human relationships through the juxtaposition of the impossible and the mundane, the domestic and the fantastic. ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: The Turn of the Screw
HORN! brings us an illustrated review of Henry James's Turn of the Screw. ...more
Spotlight: “Lumbersexual Builds a Bed” by Colleen Kolba
"Lumbersexuals Builds a Bed" is the first in a series of mini-comics that explore character construction through different "types" of people in society." ...more
HORN! REVIEWS: Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
To those who would fault the author for his digressions: Do you also complain of too many bubbles in your champagne? ...more
Spotlight: Kevin Quigley’s “June Bug Versus Hurricane”
"June Bug Versus Hurricane" is inspired by a line in a Lucinda Williams song... ...more
