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    Rob Kirby, David Kelly, Rick Worley, Justin Hall, Jon Macy, Steve MacIsaac, Craig Bostick, Jennifer Camper, Tyler Cohen, Howard Cruse, Diane DiMassa, Kris Dresen, Dylan “NDR” Edwards, Michael Fahy, Edie Fake, Nicole J. Georges, Terrance Griep, Andy Hartzell, Ed Luce, MariNaomi, Carrie McNinch, Annie Murphy, L. Nichols, Jose-Luis Olivares, Eric Orner, Carlo Quispe, Marian Runk, Christine Smith, Sina Sparrow, Sasha Steinberg, Ivan Velez, Jr., Amanda Verwey, Eric Kostiuk Williams,

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QU33R

by: Rob Kirby, David Kelly, Rick Worley, Justin Hall, Jon Macy, Steve MacIsaac, Craig Bostick, Jennifer Camper, Tyler Cohen, Howard Cruse, Diane DiMassa, Kris Dresen, Dylan “NDR” Edwards, Michael Fahy, Edie Fake, Nicole J. Georges, Terrance Griep, Andy Hartzell, Ed Luce, MariNaomi, Carrie McNinch, Annie Murphy, L. Nichols, Jose-Luis Olivares, Eric Orner, Carlo Quispe, Marian Runk, Christine Smith, Sina Sparrow, Sasha Steinberg, Ivan Velez, Jr., Amanda Verwey, Eric Kostiuk Williams,
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QU33R, from editor Rob Kirby, features great new comics from 33 contributors—legends and new faces alike. Winner of the 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology!

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Minneapolitan Robert Kirby has been drawing and publishing comics since 1990. His self-syndicated comic strip “Curbside” (1991-2008) was collected in two books: Curbside, published with the Xeric Grant in 1998, and Curbside Boys (2002, Cleis Press). His queerboy comics zine anthology Boy Trouble debuted in 1994 and there were two book collections from Green Candy Press: The Book of Boy Trouble (2006) and The Book of Boy Trouble Volume 2: Born to Trouble (2008). The first issue of Robert’s new all-color queer comics anthology THREE debuted in 2010 and was nominated for an Ignatz award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. In 2011 Robert published a second issue and he was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Prism Queer Press Grant for THREE. The third issue was published to more acclaim in June 2012. All 3 issues of THREE were chosen for the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress. In January 2014, Rob’s series THREE mutated into QU33R, a big 33-person collection of all new, all color comics, published by Northwest Press. It won the 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection. Rob’s writing, interviews and reviews have appeared online for Maximum Rock N Roll, Panel Patter, and Rain Taxi, and continue regularly at The Comics Journal. He is currently a guest editor for the Illustrated PEN series. His latest books are published by Ninth Art Press: What’s Your Sign, Girl? Cartoonists Talk About Their Sun Signs (2015) and The Shirley Jackson Project: Comics Inspired By Her Life and Work (2016). Find out more at robkirbycomics.com.
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David Kelly created the newspaper strip "Steven's Comics" for gay and alternative weeklies in the nineties. He won a Xeric award to publish a comic book collection of these strips. His work can also be seen in Boy Trouble, which he co-edited with founder, Robert Kirby. David's comics have appeared in The Stranger, Juicy MotherGay Comics, Stereoscomic, and in numerous 'zines and weekly newspapers.
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Rick Worley is the creator of A Waste of Time, a series of autobiographical comics in which he discusses the important things in life, such as cocaine, sadomasochism, and love. He lives in San Francisco because he used to live in Riverside and, let's face it, Riverside is bullshit. He divides his time between complaining about his life and lounging around with his vast legions of sexually submissive twink boy fans. They feed him grapes.
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Justin Hall is a San Francisco-based cartoonist and educator. He created the comics series True Travel Tales, Glamazonia, and Hard To Swallow (with Dave Davenport), with his work also appearing in such places as the Houghton Mifflin Best American Comics, Best Erotic Comics, QU33R, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He is the editor of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which won a Lambda Literary Award and received an Eisner Award nomination and is now being adapted into a documentary film. Hall has curated shows of comics art at the S.F. Cartoon Art Museum and the Schwules (Gay) Museum in Berlin, helped create the Artists’ Area at the Folsom Street Fair, and is the co-organizer of the Queers & Comics conference. He has been on the boards of the nonprofits Prism Comics (supporting LGBTQ comics) and Our Books (supporting Cambodian comics), and has done academic writing on comics for the Routledge and Cambridge presses. He is an Assistant Professor of Comics at the California College of the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar. Find out more at justinhallcomics.com.

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Jon Macy began his comics career with the series Tropo and Nefarismo, both part of the black-and-white alternative comics boom of the 1990s. He contributed to queer comics anthologies Meatmen, Gay Comics, QU33R and No Straight Lines, as well as gay erotic magazines such as Steam, Bunkhouse, and International Leatherman. His book Teleny and Camille, a graphic novel adaptation of the classic anonymous erotic novel attributed to Oscar Wilde and his circle of friends, won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Erotica. He followed that up with Fearful Hunter, an erotic fantasy created as an act of protest against California’s Proposition 8, which won the 2010 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant. Most recently, he co-edited the anthology Alphabet, which is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Steve MacIsaac has been drawing naked men pretty much since he could pick up a pencil. Being somewhat slow on the uptake, he had a hard time figuring out that this tendency might hold some clue to his sexual orientation. He has self-published five issues of his series Shirtlifter.

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Craig Bostick draws and paints surrounded by robots, monsters, and kittens. He lives in an imaginary world where Perry Mason buys him mai-tais at the tiki bar on the corner. Find out more about him at aquaboy.net.

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Jennifer Camper’s books include Rude Girls and Dangerous Women and subGURZ, and she is the editor of the two Juicy Mother comix anthologies. Her cartoons and illustrations have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and comic books. She has no comment on that incident in the basement with the twin chorus girls. Find out more at jennifercamper.com.
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Tyler Cohen, geek, self-publishes Primahood from somewhere in Primazonia, San Francisco. There, she pokes at murky equations of femaleness. Visit primazonia.com.
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Howard Cruse, the founding editor of Gay Comix, is the author of The Complete Wendel, From Headrack to Claude, The Other Sides of Howard Cruse, and the award-winning graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby. Visitors to Howard Cruse Central (howardcruse.com) are welcome.
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Diane DiMassa says: “I am best known for the 90's cult classic Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist comics. I probably wouldn't have contributed to QU33R if Kirby hadn'tve caught me at exactly the right moment. But I'm really glad he did.”
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Kris Dresen is an Eisner-nominated writer and artist best known for her comic Manya, Max & Lily, and her Ignatz-nominated webcomic Grace, as well a whole mess of other work. More Kris comics can be found at krisdresencomics.com.
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Dylan Edwards is a queer trans artist, and is the author of Transposes (Northwest Press, 2012), which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in 2013 for Best Transgender Non-Fiction, and Politically InQueerect: Old Ghosts and Other Stories (Northwest Press, 2015). His current project is Valley of the Silk Sky, a queer YA science fiction webcomic. He is the recipient of the National LGBTQ Journalists Association’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Transgender Coverage for his comic “How I Told My Grandma I’m Transgender.” His comics have also appeared in various anthologies, including the Ignatz Award-winning QU33R (Northwest Press, 2013), the Lambda Literary Award-winning No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics, 2012), and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Beyondanthology (Beyond Press, 2015). Find out more at studiondr.com.
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Michael Fahy’s drawings have appeared in zines and comic books (most notably Boy Trouble) since the early 90's. See more work or contact him at unclegrumpy.tumblr.com.
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Edie Fake is a Chicago-based artist and minicomics sommelier for Quimby’s Books. His first graphic novel, Gaylord Phoenix, was published by Secret Acres in 2010.
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Nicole J. Georges is a dog-loving comic artist from Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura, and the 2013/14 fellow at the Center for Cartoon Studies. Find her at nicolejgeorges.com.
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Terrance Griep writes non-fiction, fiction, and comic books.  He also blights the Midwest indy pro wrestling scene as its first out performer, Tommy "The SpiderBaby" Saturday.
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Andy Hartzell considers Rob Kirby to be his second-longest relationship. He's been contributing comics to various Kirby anthologies since 1996. It seems that, whenever Andy is contemplating walking away from the drawing table for good, Rob surfaces with a new project and talks him back into the game. He wishes to thank the editor for his unwavering support and semi-infinite patience. Andy lives in Oakland with his partner Ron, where he writes and designs games and other interactive folderol.
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Ed Luce is the San Francisco-based creator of Wuvable Oaf, an Ignatz nominated series of comics and ever-expanding line of shirts, posters, records and other merchandise. Oaf has made appearances in Maximum RockNRollBear MagazineFUR: The Love of Hair (Bruno Gmunder) and No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics) and Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever. Find out more at wuvableoaf.com.
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MariNaomi is the award-winning author of the graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011). Her next book, Turning Japanese, was published by 2D Cloud. Read online comics and more at marinaomi.com.
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Carrie McNinch used to draw a comic called The Assassin and The Whiner. Now she can't stop drawing daily diary comics for You Don't Get There From Here. She lives in Los Angeles with her two gray cats. Author illustration by Eric Shonborn.
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Annie Murphy is a comics creator and armchair historian, specializing in magic. Some of her works and projects include: I Still Live, the Gay Genius anthology, and the Collective Tarot. You can find her at ghostcatcomics.blogspot.org.
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L. Nichols lives and works as an artist and designer in Brooklyn, NY. L. is currently serializing Flocks, a memoir about growing up queer in rural, evangelical Louisiana, which can be found at grindstonecomics.com.
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Jose-Luis Olivares, a graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies in 2010, is a mini-comics maker living in Boston, Ma. He loves collaged materials, and used art from gay artist Julius in his story, “Hey Fag.” See his comics over at joseluisolivares.com.
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Eric Orner's work has appeared in mainstream, alt weekly and digital publications. A feature film adaptation of his comic strip The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green staring Meredith Baxter, Daniel Letterle, and Shanola Hampton was released in 2006. Eric's story "Weekends Abroad" for the Robert Kirby anthology THREE was included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2011. A complete collection of his Ethan Green strips was published by Northwest Press as the 2014 book The Completely Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green. Current work of Eric's is often published on the lit-crit website theRumpus.net.
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Carlo Quispe, AKA Uranus, is a 35-year-old Peruvian cartoonist living in NYC with his cat, rat and turtle. You can check out his comics magazine URANUS COMICS at printedmatter.org and more gay comics and drawings at vranvs.blogspot.com.
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Marian Runk is a Texan born, Chicago-based, Ignatz-nominated cartoonist who loves birds, cats, and country music. Her pastimes include singing the blues, walking her fluffy grey cat on a leash, and watching birds along the shore of Lake Michigan. You can find her projects at marianrunk.com.
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Christine Smith is the creator of Prism Queer Press Grant winning comic “The Princess,” about a little transgender girl. She is currently creating a trans community project to produce a graphic history of gender transgression. She lives in the Diablo Valley of California with her wife Heather Rose Brown. Find her at princesscomic.com and The “Pay It No Mind” Project.
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Sina Sparrow is a comics artist and illustrator who lives in East London.
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Sasha Steinberg recently received his MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. He also holds a BA in Modern Literatures from Vassar College. Sasha is particularly interested in developing queer literary comics, and is currently working on an epic graphic novel about the Stonewall uprising of 1969. He appeared in the 207 season of RuPaul's Drag Race as his alter ego Sasha Velour. Find out everything at sashavelour.com.
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Ivan Velez, Jr. is a Xeric Grant-winning cartoonist. His work includes Tales of the Closet, Blood Syndicate and Static for Milestone Comics, including Ghost Rider for Marvel Comics, and stuff at DC Comics, Flinch for Vertigo, and Powerpuff Girls for DC Comics. He also edited Dead High Yearbook for Dutton Books, earning an award from the American Library Association. Contact him at planetbronx.com.
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Amanda Verwey is an Oakland-based illustrator and author of the comic books Manderz Totally Top Private Diary Vol. 1-3 and All Deez Femalez Crawl. Her drawings are featured in the opening credits of Valencia, the film adaptation of Michelle Tea's seminal memoir, which premiered in June 2013. You can learn more about her at amandamakescomics.com.
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Eric Kostiuk Williams is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist based out of Toronto, Canada. His debut autobiographical work Hungry Bottom Comics was nominated for the 2013 Doug Wright Spotlight Award and the 2013 Expozine Award for Best English Comic. He is a contributing illustrator to Xtra! Magazine, and recent clients include Leo Burnett, Fab Magazine, MuchMusic, and Sharpie. In his spare time, he enjoys perusing used record shops, dancing, excavating old queer literature, and re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Visit him at ericdraws.com.
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Winner of the 2014 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology!

QU33R, from editor Rob Kirby, features 241 pages of new comics from 33 contributors—legends and new faces alike.

In 2012, Justin Hall edited a book called No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, that took readers on a journey from the beginnings of LGBT comics history to the present day. QU33R is an all-new project featuring queer comics legends as well as new talents that picks up where No Straight Lines left off. We’ve set down our history, now QU33R shines a light on our future!

QU33R had its genesis in an all-color queer comic zine called THREE, which featured three stories by three creators or teams per issue. Rob Kirby published three installments of THREE annually from 2010 to 2012, and the series did well, garnering not only an Ignatz nomination for Outstanding Anthology or Collection but also earning Rob the Prism Comics Queer Press Grant in 2011.

Producing the anthology was immensely gratifying, but featuring just three comics and publishing only once per year meant a lot of cartoonists weren’t getting the exposure they deserved. The publishing opportunities for queer cartoonists and queer subject matter are still limited, even today, and Rob longed for a wider distribution than he was able to manage on his own. He approached Northwest Press about doing a bigger compendium of all-new work.

While THREE was happening, Justin Hall was preparing his book No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which Fantagraphics published in the summer of 2012. No Straight Lines traced the history of queer comics from their humble beginnings in the late 60’s/early 70’s all the way up to the present. The book was a whopping, award-winning success. Rob got to thinking that a follow-up volume—a sort-of-sequel focusing on all new work—would seal the deal, informing the world at large that we are still here, still queer, and still producing fresh and innovative work. He wanted to include not only several queer comics veterans, but also some fresh new faces and a few folks who haven’t necessarily belonged to the orthodox “queer comics scene” but have been doing non-heteronormative work all along.

QU33R features over 240 pages of new comics from a cross-generational lineup of award-winning LGBTQ cartoonists.

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ISBN: 9781938720369
Publisher: Northwest Press
Publish Date: 2013
Page Count: 264

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  1. Sequential Tart

    “Most are explicitly about being queer, about what alternate lifestyles might entail, but there are a few that are about more general experiences viewed through a queer lens… It also covers how one queer’s experiences might differ from other queer’s—and how similar the lives of queer and straight people can be, as life and love can be beautiful and hard no matter what your orientation or gender identity. Those points all on their own would make reading the work worthwhile, offering insight to queer and straight audiences alike.” Read Wolfen Moondaughter’s review on Sequential Tart

  2. Now Read This!

    QU33R is a superb example of comics celebrating determination and difference: sensitive, evocative, romantic and humorously engaging ‘people stories’ which any open-minded fan can’t help but adore. There’s not much fighting but plenty of punch, and in an ideal world this book would be readily available in every school and library for any confused kid in need of inspiration, comfort, understanding, encouragement and hope.” Read Win Wiacek’s review on Now Read This!

  3. Comics Worth Reading

    “This is a substantial work, well-suited for the shelves of anyone interested in the topic. Even beyond the subject matter, the collection of cartooning styles displayed here is eye-opening.” Read Johanna Draper Carlson’s review on Comics Worth Reading

  4. Thirteen Minutes

    “Perhaps Howard Cruse’s reappropriated Dagwood Bumstead riff is an emblematic entry. There’s a certain aspirational nonchalance there to coming out as a young gay man, a matter-of-fact blurt-out from a closeted lesbian housewife. The people are just there, just living, and the future is wide-open, as indicated by so many of the inconclusive endings found in the entries. Kudos to Rob Kirby for the well-curated selections, along with achieving a rare narrative and aesthetic cohesion of all the themes and styles. Grade A-.” Read Justin Giampaoli’s review on Thirteen Minutes

  5. Comic Book Resources

    QU33R is the sort of comics anthology that we need more of. Kirby’s assembled a great deal of unique comics voices for this book, and the end result is a real joy to read. This isn’t just a book of good LGBT comics, it’s a book of good comics, period. QU33R is well worth your time and money.” Read Greg McElhatton’s review on Comic Book Resources

  6. National Post

    “Memory and melancholy both show up in spades in QU33R, a smart survey of queer comics from the growing Seattle press. The tendency here is towards a certain degree of autobiography, calling back to the heyday of highly personal art comics of the ’80s and ’90s.” Read David Berry’s review in the National Post

  7. Lambda Literary

    “All in all a superb collection, one I want on every graphic novel e-reader, and, as a librarian, in every library, personal and public, including my own.” Read Cathy Camper’s review on Lambda Literary

  8. Optical Sloth

    “Damn, now that’s how you put together a fantastic anthology.” Read the review on Optical Sloth

  9. Okazu

    “If you have ever asked yourself something along the lines of ‘what do LGBTQ comics in America look like?’ you’ll definitely want to pick up QU33R.” Read Erica Friedman’s review on Okazu

  10. Lavender Magazine

    “This full-color collection by queer publisher Northwest Press covers the entire spectrum of the rainbow, young love, old love, no love – drama in the past and present, and through all the rainbow’s angstroms of gender, sex, race and class, happiness and despair. These stories will bear you along on a fresh tide of QU33R life heading into your future.” Read E.B. Boatner’s capsule review in Lavender Magazine

  11. Whit Taylor

    “ In the case of QU33R, an anthology edited by Robert Kirby, all I can say are positive things. Why? Because the individual stories are quite strong and Kirby’s editing makes for a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Kirby has been editing anthologies for a while, and it’s quite clear to me that he’s very skilled at it. QU33R however, is a big leap forward for him for several reasons. First, visually it’s quite arresting and clever, for instance using a rainbow header that spans the book. The feel of the book is nice and the jacket is colorfully covered with individual faces exploring multiple identities. Second and more importantly though, Kirby has an editing style that does not stifle individual artists from exploring their visions, but one that allows for their pieces to complement each other.” Read the whole review on Whit Taylor’s Comics

  12. The Bay Area Reporter

    “Contributors include such well-known gay comics artists as Eric Orner and Justin Hall, as well as a lot of newcomers unknown, at least to Out There. Territory covered runs the gamut, from the expected—coming-out tales, melodramatic love affairs—to the unexpected.” Read Roberto Friedman’s whole review in Out There in the Bay Area Reporter

  13. Broken Frontier

    “Overall, this is an excellently curated and designed collection of cartooning that will sit happily alongside the Best American Comics series and Ivan Brunetti’s Graphic Fiction volumes.” Read Tom Murphy’s whole review on Broken Frontier

  14. Comics Grinder

    QU33R is a significant comics anthology collecting the work of 33 cartoonists exploring queer themes that was recently published by Northwest Press. What you find here is a wide variety of styles and insights.” Read Harry Chamberlain’s whole review on Comics Grinder

  15. Gay People’s Chronicle

    “The conceit of Three is that Kirby gets three great comic creators to contribute stories to each volume. At times he went a little crazy and put more than three creators in, but that is what one calls creative liberties. This follows his history of anthologizing and contributing, like his early Strange Looking Exile and Boy Trouble, the latter with David Kelly. Now, however, Kirby has gone completely crazy, cramming 33 creators into his newest book, QU33R, out now on Northwest Press, the home of everything gay in comicdom.” Read Anthony Glassman’s whole review in the Gay People’s Chronicle

  16. The Comics Journal

    QU33R unquestionably succeeds as a wide-ranging survey of queer cartoonists at this point in time.” Read Rob Clough’s whole review in the The Comics Journal