Curses

Anthologies and short story collections are always such a difficult thing for me to judge. Generally the quality and value of the work is so varied that it's hard to come up with any kind of monolithic opinion to summarize the work. While single-author collections can be a bit easier, they still are......more

Huizenga's stories range from Victorian ghost stories, articles on Sudan, folk tales, Christian arguments, and even adoption reports. This can be a good thing if the subjects themselves are interesting though unfortunately most of them are not. The Victorian ghost story is an adaptation of Sheridan......more

I really enjoy Huizenga's illustration style. There's a neatness and simplicity to it. I REALLY enjoyed the Glenn Ganges story included in The Best American Comics 2009 (on gaming after work at a .com). This collection isn't quite as strong to me as that story. There isn't the humor. Some of the sel......more

This is a collection of nine comics about Glenn Ganges, a sort of everyman character whom it’s tempting to assume is an author avatar, and who also stars in Huizenga’s phenomenal The River at Night. Despite all revolving around the same characters, these are fundamentally nine separate comics, large......more