Rumpus Comics
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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.
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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.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Wangs vs. the World
“Laugh and get depressed. Get depressed and laugh. What else was there to do?”
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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.
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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.
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Revolutionaries Try Again
Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab—the tension between the call to service and the desire for more…
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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.
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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.
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HORN! REVIEWS: Unbearable Splendor
Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography, and folklore to unlock the titular emotion…
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Spotlight: “Sleep Walking” by Annalise Mabe
“Sleep Walking” highlights the grays, the in-betweens, revealing that even with good intentions things can go badly.
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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…
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Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
“Mouth” explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey.