SOLRAD Presents: Lauren Barnett: Let Go

Celebrate letting yourself go and indulge the simple pleasures with Lauren Barnett and SOLRAD Presents today!
March 31, 2023

SOLRAD Presents: Travel Diary #9

Today on SOLRAD Presents, Scott Finch continues his journey through abstract shape and color in his Travel Diary.
March 29, 2023
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Whose Comics?: Refining, Defining, and Confining with Domingos Isabelinho’s THE READING GAZE by Hagai Palevsky

Today on SOLRAD, Hagai Palevsky returns with an essay that examines "What is Comics" and Domingos Isabelinho's THE READING GAZE
March 29, 2023

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Essays & Interviews

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Whose Comics?: Refining, Defining, and Confining with Domingos Isabelinho’s THE READING GAZE by Hagai Palevsky

Today on SOLRAD, Hagai Palevsky returns with an essay that examines "What is Comics" and Domingos Isabelinho's THE READING GAZE
March 29, 2023
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Scene Report: At the BOLOGNA CHILDREN’S BOOK FAIR, comics are the fastest-growing sector

Today on SOLRAD, Pietro Scarnera visits the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and finds that comics are the fastest-growing sector
March 28, 2023
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Comics Have Always Been Poetry: Joan Zahra Dark Interviews Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Today on SOLRAD, Joan Zahra Dark interviews Rosemary Valero-O'Connell with a focus on their new poetry chapbook hybrid from Silver Sprocket, GOLDEN RECORD
March 22, 2023
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Liberation Through the Abject in Kyoko Okazaki’s HELTER SKELTER by Ayla Marsden

Today SOLRAD features the debut of writer Ayla Marsden who writes about the liberation through theaAbject in Kyoko Okazaki’s HELTER SKELTER
March 20, 2023

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SOLRAD Presents: Lauren Barnett: Let Go

Celebrate letting yourself go and indulge the simple pleasures with Lauren Barnett and SOLRAD Presents today!
March 31, 2023
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SOLRAD Presents: Travel Diary #9

Today on SOLRAD Presents, Scott Finch continues his journey through abstract shape and color in his Travel Diary.
March 29, 2023
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SOLRAD Presents: The Locust Lodge #33

Derek Van Gieson's The Locust Lodge enters a new phase, so come down to the clinic to get your checks cashed on SOLRAD Presents.
March 29, 2023
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SOLRAD Presents: Lauren Barnett: Lamp

Does Lauren Barnett's crusade against the big light go too far, or can you never have enough lamps? Find out today on SOLRAD Presents!
March 24, 2023

Reviews

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Characters Build The World: Rob Clough reviews Audra Stang’s STAR VALLEY comics

Today on SOLRAD, Rob Clough looks at Audra Stang's STAR VALLEY comics and finds that what makes them so compelling is that Stang clearly has a sweeping, even epic, conception of how this story is going to go.
March 27, 2023
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Exactitude of Silence: Hagai Palevsky on the Emotional Dislocation in Sam Alden’s SLEDGEHAMMER

Today on SOLRAD, we celebrate the return of Hagai Palevsky who writes about the Emotional Dislocation in Sam Alden's SLEDGEHAMMER
March 13, 2023
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On The Precipice: Rob Clough reviews NOW #7

Rob Clough is back on SOLRAD reviewing the NOW Anthology from Fantagraphics. Today he looks at Issue #7
March 6, 2023
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Tasha Lowe-Newsome reviews WOMAN IN THE WOODS AND OTHER NORTH AMERICAN STORIES Anthology published by Iron Circus Comics

Today on SOLRAD, Tasha Lowe-Newsome reviews WOMAN IN THE WOODS AND OTHER NORTH AMERICAN STORIES Anthology published by Iron Circus Comics
March 1, 2023

Excerpts & Previews

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Exclusive Preview: UNIMPRESSED by Miranda Tacchia, Published by Fantagraphics

Today we are pleased to offer SOLRAD readers an exclusive preview of Miranda Tacchia's UNIMPRESSED, which will be published next week by Fantagraphics.
October 21, 2021
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Exclusive Excerpt: THINK I’VE STILL GOT IT by Wang XX, from Paradise Systems

Today, we've got a sneak preview of Paradise Systems' latest book, THINK I'VE STILL GOT IT, currently on Kickstarter!
September 22, 2021
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Exclusive Excerpt: To Be A Brave Scout by Julia Kluge, from Rotopol

Today, we have an exclusive excerpt of Julia Kluge's TO BE A BRAVE SCOUT, published this summer by Rotopol in Germany. Enjoy!
July 19, 2021

Original Comics

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Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities: Walking Tale #2

Wondering wanderings, wandering cities is a non-fictional, reportage type illustrated comic created by Tânia A. Cardoso as part of her PhD research’s artistic practice. She explores the complexities of different cities’ urban space through the practice of walking and in different illustrated experiences, mainly based on the comic format. By combining theory and praxis her...
January 6, 2023
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Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities: Walking Tale #1

Tânia A. Cardoso returns to SOLRAD Presents with another Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities, considering walking through an interesting part of Amsterdam.
October 31, 2022
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Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities: Bicycles

Take a rest from the city chaos as summer ends and get lazy with Tânia A. Cardoso and her meditations on cities, Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities on SOLRAD Presents.
August 25, 2022

Updates from the Publisher

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Welcome to SOLRAD, 2023

January 2, 2023
On January 1, 2020, full of large plans, crackling energy, and a desire to create something good and useful for the community that we love, we launched SOLRAD into the world. Now, nearly 1,400 posts later, we begin our 4th year as the online literary magazine for comics, continuing to aspire to these goals. 
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SPX 2022 Panel – Enemies of the State: Focus on Megan Kelso

March 5, 2023,
Moderator Alex Hoffman and fellow critics Rob Clough and Jules Baker host a special SPX edition of the podcast Enemies of the State, featuring special guest Megan Kelso, author of the new collection, Who Will Make The Pancakes?
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