Book Reviews
Sarah Morean
Sarah Morean began self-publishing zines and comics in 2005. She organized three years of the Twin Cities Zinefest and is the co-founder and director of the Minneapolis Indie Xpo, a festival that celebrates independent comics and cartoonists.
She is the former Mini-Comics Editor of The Daily Cross Hatch and co-founder of the annual event International Read Comics in Public Day. Sarah is an obsessive blogger with a variety of interests and hobbies and you’ll find more of her work when you visit smorean.com.
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Sarah's Posts
Awesome Future: Stories of Victorious Action
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Oct 18, 2012
“Awesome Future” has a kind of logic that might not make sense to you directly, but it lays out ideas about a life others live, and lets you easily appreciate why anyone would want to live this way. The book inspires the reader to keep an open mind, change their attitude, and possibly change their life. Read On
“Me Likes You Very Much” by Lauren Barnett
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Aug 16, 2012
The book collects roughly four years of webcomics by Barnett, who got into blogging because her roommate was doing it. Five years and many gag comics later, her first graphic novel “Me Likes You Very Much” was just nominated for a 2012 Ignatz Award in the category of Promising New Talent. Read On
Sean Ford’s “Only Skin”
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Jul 19, 2012
People are disappearing from a small town in the Western United States and nobody knows why in Sean Ford’s graphic novel “Only Skin.” Read On
Freddy Stories by Melissa Mendes
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Jun 14, 2012
Freddy is a scruffy oddball who enjoys being active, messy, daring and imaginative. Her parents may be separated but her home life with mom and their dog Frank is happy enough. Read On
“The New Ghost” by Robert Hunter
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May 10, 2012
It’s a ghost’s first day on the job and things are not going well for him in Robert Hunter’s first mini-comic “The New Ghost.” Read On
“Clutch” and “Invincible Summer”
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Apr 19, 2012
Clutch McBastard and Nicole J. Georges are friends with comic book series — “Clutch” and “Invincible Summer,” respectively. They’re buds who had the happy idea to occasionally co-publish their series into fun little split-minis like this one. Read On
The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions
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Mar 29, 2012
Corinne Mucha has quite an imagination. To her, the slightest draft would mean a ghost in the house, a stripey shadow in the corner must actually be a crouching tiger, and the sound of dry branches scraping across the roof would of course be blamed on witches’ nails. Read On
“The Naughty Hen Song” by Jim Stoten
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Mar 15, 2012
This comic is goofy and gorgeous. Read On
Neil Brideau’s “The Plot”
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Mar 01, 2012
When the aliens visited many generations ago, they permanently altered life for a small, humble tribe in Neil Brideau’s latest mini-comic series “The Plot.” Read On
Vincent Stall’s “Things You Carry”
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Dec 22, 2011
The Stall oeuvre is marked by a minor style change that happened about ten years ago and left a trail of more ethereal, obscure works in the form of mini-comics, posters, installations and paintings. “Things You Carry” is the satisfying culmination of the imagery and ideas that make up his new style. Read On
