Helen Chazen returns to SOLRAD with this months edition of COMICS GRIDLOCK which looks at a couple of manga releases connected by the slender thread of their category: LGBT manga.
Oola's resistance battle continues, Karl dreams of lighthouses, and a Christmas snow falls, in the penultimate Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.
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...
Leo Flemisch makes his SOLRAD debut looking at the work of accomplished manga artist Taiyō Matsumoto and the theme of childhood and friendship running through his work.
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.
Karl and Kelly head to Harrogate, Yorkshire for Thought Bubble, where they see some brilliant faces in Hales Bar and learn something new about their cat's name, all in The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
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This week in Karl C. Krumpholz's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents sees a man look in the wrong places for love, someone who can't give up on Halloween, and an awesome Komodo Dragon!
Karl experiences saudade as he thinks about his grandfathers, meanwhile Oola prepares to kill on Halloween in this week's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
Today on SOLRAD, Keith Silva returns with a review of the debut heartfelt, funny, and powerful memoir, A PROS AND CONS LIST FOR STRONG FEELINGS, by Will Betke-Brunswick, published by Tin House
HEATHCLIFF WEEK continues on SOLRAD? Well... sort of. Andrew Neal interviewed Heathcliff's PETER GALLAGHER at this year's CXC and then they put it up on YouTube and we're sharing that here.
Oola brings both existential grounding and sheer destruction, while Kelly teaches Karl about birds in another week of The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
Tânia A. Cardoso returns to SOLRAD Presents with another Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities, considering walking through an interesting part of Amsterdam.
Karl and Kelly head to Columbus for CXC, where they meet some interesting characters, in another week of The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
In The Lighthouse in the City, Karl C. Krumpholz heads to SPX to meet with his comics making family, including a special appearance from one of SOLRAD's own!
Today on SOLRAD, Rob Clough continues his examination of the NOW anthology series from Fantagraphics by examining the departure from safer fare of issue number four.
Oola the cat prepares her manifesto for the French Resistance, meanwhile Karl C. Krumpholz takes a walk through his neighborhood, in the Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.
Today on SOLRAD, Kevin Brown reviews PARENTHESIS by Élodie Durand (translated by Edward Gauvin), published by Top Shelf in2021 (originally 2010 in French).
Karl C. Krumpholz shares some views of his neighborhood, Oola the cat helps out the French Resistance, and more in this week's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.
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.
Karl C. Krumpholz has been living in Denver for a while now, he reflects on the things he finds weird, and the things he likes about the city, and more in The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
Kricket the Cat's witchy friends help relieve some of his recent 'BLEH' feelings with some soup in today's strip from Reilly Hadden on SOLRAD Presents.
In this week's collection of Karl C. Krumpholz's THE LIGHTHOUSE IN THE CITY, Oola is a wild beast, and Karl consider's Denver's black hole effect. Enjoy!
Karl and Kelly welcome a break in the high temperatures of summer, Oola fights for freedom, and more, in Karl C. Krumpholz's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.
SOLRAD regular Kevin Brown returns with a review of FLUNG OUT OF SPACE, a fictional portrait of Pat Highsmith, the renowned, complex, and controversial queer author.
Kevin Brown returns to SOLRAD with a review of TWO HEADS: A GRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HOW OUR BRAINS WORK WITH OTHER BRAINS by Uta Frith, Chris Frith, Alex Frith, and Daniel Locke. Published by Scribner.
Karl C. Krumpholz seeks out landlocked Denver's small bodies of water as respite from the intense July heat in The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!
Daniel Elkin is back at SOLRAD with Books in Bites, his capsule review column. This week features books from Matthew Daley, Sas Milledge, and Suehiro Maruo.
In this month's Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities, Tânia A. Cardoso shows her growing appreciation of bikes now that she lives in The Netherlands.
The convention scene is bouncing back this year, and SOLRAD correspondent Pietro Scarnera files this report of the Montréal Comic Art Festival, which was held at the end of May this year.
The Lighthouse in The City is a daily comic from Karl Christian Krumpholz (30 Miles of Crazy!, The City Was Never Going to Let Go, One Minute to Wonderland) that began at the start of 2020 to document his wife’s then-upcoming surgery and recovery. The comic continued as issues of social isolation in society became forefront in everyone’s minds. The title comes...
This week's set of LIGHTHOUSE IN THE CITY comics from Karl C. Krumpholz include Kelly's father's funeral, and those brief moments of solitude in the darkness.
Meeting Comics is a soap opera gag comic created by Andrew Neal. He posts three new comics online every week, and self-publishes a print issue every two months. A collection of the first six issues was published by AdHouse Books. The comics being posted on Solrad begin with issue 7, immediately following the book collection from...
SOLRAD's EIC jumps back into the reviewing game with his old capsule review column, resurrected from his previous website YOUR CHICKEN ENEMY - welcome back to the Book Bites!
In this wide-ranging essay, SOLRAD's publisher Alex Hoffman discusses the different aspects of Maus and comic's love-hate relationship with transgression (often for transgression's sake).
Today we feature the fourth installment of COMICS GRIDLOCK - Helen Chazan's capsule review column at SOLRAD - this time it's reviews of manga paperbacks Helen has read while waiting for something.
Fieldmouse Press is crowdfunding four new books, so today we offer you a sneak preview of one of them — Noëlle Kröger's Good Person Trouble, translated by Natalye Childress.
Karl and Kelly's trip to Boston continues, before returning home to Oola the cat in The Lighthouse in the City from Karl C. Krumpholz and SOLRAD Presents.
Today on SOLRAD, Rob Clough begins a recurring feature reviewing issues of Fantagraphics' anthology series NOW. He begins, of course, at the beginning.
Jef Harmatz's Danger Diver teaches us about the Squid Scale and the origin of the famous phrase 'the keg is beefy squid of heaviness' on SOLRAD Presents today!
Today on SOLRAD, it's the third installment of COMICS GRIDLOCK - Helen Chazan's capsule review column at SOLRAD - this time it's a journey through various forms of what we might call pulp
The Locust Lodge is a supernatural/horror/noir centered on the exploits of special agent Bert Arne, a character previously featured in Eel Mansions (Uncivilized Books).Derek Van Gieson’s comics can be found on his website, and on his Instagram account (@derek_vangieson). Eel Mansions can be purchased from its publisher, Uncivilized Books. SOLRAD is made possible by the...
Patrick Kuklinski takes us back into the internet of fandom with an overview of The Warriors comics, both official and fan-made, in his latest essay. Enjoy!
Nhatt Nichols steps back to SOLRAD with a conversation between Tomás Cisternas, a celebrated Chilean comics poet, and Stefan Lorenzutti, the publisher of Bored Wolves, a comics poetry micropress in Poland.
Nicholas Breutzman's Pill Hill confronts us with an impossible question: How do you write a detective story with no knowledge of crime? Will any answers be revealed? Find out on SOLRAD presents!
At Burger Fortress, the burgers use all parts of the animal, even the eyes. Come try one in this week's The Locust Lodge from Derek Van Gieson and SOLRAD Presents.
Welcome to ABRACADABRA!, a struggling magic club operated by The Great Presto — Join this down-and-out magician, his lovely assistant Sedona, his opening act Frown the Clown, his rabbit Sniffles and more for all kinds of assorted nonsense! A new workplace comedy from the cartoonist who brought you PELICAN BASTARDS! SOLRAD is made possible by...
Welcome to the second installment of COMICS GRIDLOCK - Helen Chazan's capsule review column at SOLRAD - today's focus is on the work of a selection of Trans cartoonists
It's a week of boosts as Karl and Kelly get their top-up vaccines, Karl discovers his local stardom, and Oola gets the zoomies in The Lighthouse in the City from Karl C Krumpholz and SOLRAD Presents.
Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat embarks on an adventure to capture photographs of the creatures of Moonrock! What has he discovered today? Find out on SOLRAD Presents!