Ian M takes SOLRAD Presents home after a day out in Kitajima, his liminal bilingual journey through Japan, but where is the light switch?

Scott Finch's spontaneous technicolor delight Travel Diary continues to enthrall this week on SOLRAD Presents!

Zeek-X has found something special in this week's The Locust Lodge from Derek Van Gieson and SOLRAD Presents!

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. 

Beer is good, and snacks are considered in today's edition of Kitajima, Ian M's Japanese adventure on SOLRAD Presents!

Come on a swirling kaleidoscopic journey with SOLRAD Presents as Scott Finch's Travel Diary kicks off in earnest!

Ending a three year run of diary comics, Karl C. Krumpholz reviews the year, looks around the bar, before Oola makes another escape attempt!

The Empress receives an exciting delivery as Derek Van Gieson's The Locust Lodge continues on SOLRAD Presents!

A bus journey and a lonely meal by the sea as Ian M's Japanese exploration comic reaches a downbeat moment on SOLRAD Presents.

Scott Finch returns to SOLRAD Presents with a kaleidoscopic Travel Diary, this departure from his previous work is filled with color and shape!

Oola's resistance battle continues, Karl dreams of lighthouses, and a Christmas snow falls, in the penultimate Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.

After a hiatus, Derek Van Gieson's The Locust Lodge returns to SOLRAD Presents for its strangest chapter yet!

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...

Sudden danger cuts a lovely stroll through the park short in another edition of Ian M's Kitajima on SOLRAD Presents!

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 finish their UK trip with a week in London in another edition of The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!

Ian visits the onsen and has regrets about his current accomodations, this week in KITAJIMA - enjoy!

Rob Clough is back on SOLRAD continuing his examination of the NOW anthology published by Fantagraphics.

Today on SOLRAD, our own Alex Hoffman returns to reviewing with a look at GOLDEN BOY: BEETHOVEN’S YOUTH by Mikael Ross

Heading to Edinburgh, Karl C. Krumpholz explores while deliriously tired in another week of The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.

Come settle into your room in Ian M's Kitajima on SOLRAD Presents, it's got a futon and a TV with a coin slot!

Today on SOLRAD, John McNamee explores the cartoonist Jason’s desire to create a body of work that explores the enigma of the unsaid.

Get a tasty meal and check into your room at the guest house, it's Kitajima from Ian M and SOLRAD Presents!

Today on SOLRAD, Helen Chazan is back with another COMICS GRIDLOCK column focused on horror manga because it's late November.

So wanna help SOLRAD thrive in 2023? Do you want to help us continue to get the word out about wonderful comics? There are a couple of options for you. Yep... it's one of those posts.

Today on SOLRAD, Kevin Brown returns to review KEEPING TWO by Jordan Crane, published by Fantagraphics.

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!

Today on SOLRAD: The Brutal Endeavor — Tasha Lowe-Newsome Reviews Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics

Continue our journey in rural Japan, learn about some animals, and meet a local, in Ian M's Kitajima on SOLRAD Presents!

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.

Hagai Palevsky returns to SOLRAD today with an examination of PLAZA by Yokoyama Yūichi through a Debord and Juvenal lens.

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!

Today on SOLRAD, Tom Shapira is back taking a hard-nosed look at BLACKSAD - THEY ALL FALL DOWN

Today on SOLRAD, Kawai Shen examines what is missing in the dialogue surrounding Kate Beaton's DUCKS and the consequences of that absence.

In Kitajima, a new comic on SOLRAD Presents, Ian M takes us to rural Japan in a bilingual story about leaving your comfort zone.

Today on SOLRAD, Kevin Brown returns with a review of THE CON ARTISTS by Luke Healy, published by Drawn & Quarterly

Matt MacFarland's Dark Pants continues on SOLRAD Presents, as our hero can't handle the heat of the last few pages.

Karl C. Krumpholz contemplates his pace of work and gets a fever in another week of The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.

Today on SOLRAD, Kori Handwerker returns with a review of the beautiful A FROG IN THE FALL by Linnea Sterte, published by PEOW Studios.

Rob Kirby returns to SOLRAD today with a review of IT'S SO MAGIC by Lynda Barry

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!

The titular pants are coming off in today's steaming edition of Matt MacFarland's Dark Pants on SOLRAD Presents.

Today on SOLRAD, Hagai Palevsky returns with a review of BABY ROSE MARIE SINGS "COME OUT, COME OUT" by Jenna Cha

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, Helen Chazan is back with her capsule review column, COMICS GRIDLOCK.

Today on SOLRAD, Tom Shapira returns with a review of THE LAST AMERICAN written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, drawn by Mick McMahon.

Life continues for Karl, Kelly, and Oola, despite a week marred by death, in Karl C. Krumpholz's Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.

Announcing our latest book, MariNaomi's I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME, which is now available for preorder on Crowdfundr!

Today on SOLRAD, Kevin Brown reviews PARENTHESIS by Élodie Durand (translated by Edward Gauvin), published by Top Shelf in2021 (originally 2010 in French).

Things are about to get freaky in this week's page of DARK PANTS by Matt MacFarland...

Today on SOLRAD, Tynan Stewart reviews RADICAL: MY YEAR WITH A SOCIALIST SENATOR by Sofia Warren, published by Top Shelf in 2022

Put on your shadiest trousers, it's time for Matt MacFarland's Dark Pants to return to SOLRAD Presents after its brief hiatus!

Today for your reading pleasure, Hagai Palevsky brings SOLRAD a review of the Grendel: Hunter Rose anthology, recently reprinted by Dark Horse.

Ahead of its return with fresh pages, we thought a recap of the last few pages of Matt MacFarland's Dark Pants would be useful on SOLRAD Presents.

In a bumper length ABRACADABRA, from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents, Presto's transportation trick turns out much more powerful than intended!

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.

Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat finds out what cool spooky stuff some old pals are up to on SOLRAD Presents today!

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!

Frown the Clown faces some of his biggest fears in Micheal Aushenker's ABRACADABRA on SOLRAD Presents this week.

In the ONE HUNDREDTH edition of Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents, Kricket suffers yet more losses.

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.

I'm starting to think this Bestiary photo contest might have been a scam in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

At least Presto's mishaps are entertaining even without streaming services in Michael Aushenker's ABRACADABRA on SOLRAD Presents.

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.

Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat is all alone, will you join him on SOLRAD Presents and hear about his struggles?

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.

Can you help Kricket with this whole 'rent' situation? Things get real in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

In this month's Wondering Wanderings, Wandering Cities, Tânia A. Cardoso shows her growing appreciation of bikes now that she lives in The Netherlands.

In this week's Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Present, Karl C. Krumpholz takes us on a dreamy, literary journey of seas, rivers, and lighthouses.

Kricket the Cat's financial woes continue to catch up with him in this new edition of Reilly Hadden's strip on SOLRAD Presents!

Presto shares his absurdly lofty ambitions with Frown the Clown in today's ABRACADABARA strip from Micheal Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents.

Alex Hoffman takes a highly personal look at Mirion Malle's THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR, published in 2021 by D&Q. TW: depression, suicidal ideation.

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...

Another stumbling block for Kricket the Cat and his Stegahorsus photograph in today's strip from Reilly Hadden and SOLRAD Present!

In the final part of #16 of Andrew Neal's Meeting Comics on SOLRAD Presents, our heroes are presented with some exciting opportunities!

Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat finally delivers delicious payment to Old Man Catfish on SOLRAD Presents today!

It's SANDWICH time for Kricket and Louise at the Bird-House in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

Frown the Clown makes a preposterous suggestion to Presto in today's ABRACADABRA from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents!

Kricket finds a beautiful surprise in the Bird-Home in Kricket the Cat from Reilly Hadden and SOLRAD Presents.

Karl C. Krumpholz heads explores Toronto while attending TCAF in this week's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents.

The truth comes out and the kids are getting up to things you won't believe in the alley in today's Meeting Comics from Andrew Neal & SOLRAD Presents!

Enter that bird's bird home and meet his bird family with Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

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!

Karl remembers his uncle and Oola finds a new game in this week's The Lighthouse in the City from Karl C. Krumpholz & SOLRAD Presents!

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).

Things are hard for a magician in this economy! Read about Presto's struggles in ABRACADABRA from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents.

What's that bird talking about? Kricket and Louise have no idea in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents!

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.

Louise has really been carrying Kricket recently in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

Today on SOLRAD, Hagai Palevsky returns with a look at ISH by Adam De Souza, the limitations of language, and processing grief

There's all kinds of corporate meddling going on in this week's edition of Andrew Neal's Meeting Comics on SOLRAD Presents!

Kricket has a meltdown on the Forbidden Isle - hang in there bud, it's going to work out (probably?) in this week's KRICKET THE CAT!

Today on SOLRAD, Tony Wei Ling returns with a masterful essay trying to understand the relationship between comics and the abstract.

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.

Today on SOLRAD, Rob Clough continues his recurring feature reviewing issues of Fantagraphics' anthology series NOW.

Sedona finds out that it's hard to find work, even when you're more than qualified in ABRACADABRA from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents!

Today on SOLRAD, Nicholas Burman returns to review ELEPHANT and PROJECTOR by Martin Vaughn-James, recently published by New York Review Comics

Lost cameras, stolen hats, and a no-call no-show... how is Kricket ever going to get out of this mess? Check out the latest page from Reilly Hadden!

Today marks the end of Jef Harmatz's amazing run on DANGER DIVER. Enjoy THE END... but does it ever really end?

Today on SOLRAD, Patrick Kuklinski talks to Rosemary Mosco about science education and her BIRD AND MOON comics

The birds of Forbidden Isle really know how to ruin a perfect moment, don't they? Check out the latest page of Kricket the Cat from Reilly Hadden!

Is it me, or has Derek Van Gieson's THE LOCUST LODGE gotten a little meta? Enjoy the latest page, brought to you by SOLRAD Presents!

Don does what he needs to do, and Dark Lord opens up Terry's marriage, it's Andrew Neal's Meeting Comics on SOLRAD Presents!

Today on SOLRAD, Kevin Brown reviews FINE: A COMIC ABOUT GENDER by Rhea Ewing, published in 2022 by Liveright Publishing.

Meet Athen's true urban wanderers, cats, in Tânia A. Cardoso's exploration of urban space, Wondering Wanderings, on SOLRAD Presents.

Today's Pill Hill by Nicholas Breutzman on SOLRAD Profile comes with a reminder to show your teeth in your dating profile.

Today on SOLRAD, Tony Wei Ling interviews SUPERPOSE’S Joe and Anka

Who's talking about Eddie Money? Not anyone in The Locust Lodge from Derek Van Gieson and SOLRAD Presents!

Half of the crowd gets nice and cozy for Presto in Michael Aushenker's ABRACADABRA on SOLRAD Presents today.

Today on SOLRAD, Keith Silva returns to review TYRANNY OF THE MUSE by Eddie Wright and Dave Chisholm while quoting a former Long Island local.

Today on SOLRAD, Rob Clough begins a recurring feature reviewing issues of Fantagraphics' anthology series NOW. He begins, of course, at the beginning.

So that's why they call it the Forbidden Isle! It's another Kricket the Cat strip from Reilly Hadden and SOLRAD Presents!

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!

Karl and Kelly head to Boston, but will Oola be all right on her own? It's The Lighthouse in the City from Karl C. Krumpholz and SOLRAD Presents!

Louise blushes as she makes a lovely new feathery friend in Reilly Hadden's Kricket The Cat on SOLRAD Presents!

Publication arrangements are made and specialist cocktails are discussed in The Locust Lodge by Derek Van Gieson on SOLRAD Presents today!

Michael Aushenker's ABRACADABRA gets political as the clown's career prospects are mapped out on SOLRAD Presents!

Old Man Catfish drives a hard bargain for his "hard" work, this week in KRICKET THE CAT from Reilly Hadden!

Come with Danger Diver into the depths and get to the core of all things fishy, from your friends Jef Harmatz and SOLRAD Presents!

Why can't Karl just like chillax, man? It's another week of Karl C. Krumpholz's The Lighthouse in the City on SOLRAD Presents!

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...

Presto and Harry The Spectacular reunite for another magical edition of ABRACADABRA from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents!

Kevin Brown has a new review for us this week, of Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu's SHADOW LIFE, published in 2021 by First Second.

Are there any sandwich shops in the middle of the ocean? Our heroes face a dilemma in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

A pensive chapter of Nicholas Brutzman's Pill Hill on SOLRAD Presents, as our hero recalls tragic events he's witnessed.

Our friend the Danger Diver shifts perspectives as he takes us through his undersea journey from Jef Harmatz and SOLRAD Presents

A very reasonable amount of sandwiches is requested in Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

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.

Please help us continue to run SOLRAD by partnering with us financially! We need your help to keep going.

Michael Aushenker's magicians face off in a battle of assistants in a special full-color edition of ABRACADABRA on SOLRAD Presents!

Craig Fischer returns to SOLRAD with a life and career-spanning interview with cartoonist and teacher Ben Towle. Enjoy!

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!

Now twice weekly on SOLRAD Presents, Reilly Hadden's Kricket The Cat sees a bird taking some lovely photographs!

New to SOLRAD, Amaris Ketcham & Nora Hickey bring us their first review, of RAVE by Jessica Campbell, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

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...

At least the giant frog didn't eat the camera! It's Kricket the Cat by Reilly Hadden back on SOLRAD Presents!

Nicholas Bruetzman's Pill Hill takes a melancholy turn on SOLRAD Presents this week as Henry misses his mother.

Satisfy your oyster cravings and get a cute treat with our pal Danger Diver from Jef Harmatz and SOLRAD Presents!

Kevin Brown returns to SOLRAD with a review of Anneli Furmark's WALK ME TO THE CORNER, published in English by Drawn & Quarterly.

Do you think the coffee at Burger Fortress IV is any good? Maybe we will find out in Derek Van Gieson's The Locust Lodge on SOLRAD Presents!

Hopefully Kricket got his shot before he got that shock! Read Reilly Hadden's Kricket the Cat on SOLRAD Presents.

Today on SOLRAD, we welcome new contributor Pietro Scarnera who talks to Manuele Fior about his book Celestia, published by Fantagraphics.

As the ocean is overflows with eggs, our pal Danger Diver helps us makes sense of the varieties in a new page from Jef Harmatz and SOLRAD Presents.

A very important question gets rudely interrupted in Derek Van Gieson's The Locust Lodge on SOLRAD Presents.

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.

A very specific trick will get you a great discount! Learn how in ABRACADABRA from Michael Aushenker and SOLRAD Presents.