Highlighting some great small press comics criticism being published, as well as other random things that have caught my eye over the past week.



COMICS CRITICISM



* Megan Purdy and Kat Overland have this great conversation about Kabi Nagata’s MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS.



* Dominic Umile on Ellice Weaver’s SOMETHING CITY.



* Hillary Brown takes a look at Andrea Pazienza’s ZANARDI which she calls “foul, rude … and not wholly without merit.”



* Robert Kirby on I WISH I WAS JOKING by Tom Van Deusen.





* Arnar Heidmar‘s STRANGERS IN PARADISE RANTROSPECTIVE PART 1.





* Keith Silva takes apart his reaction to METAL GODS: A TRIBUTE TO JUDAS PRIEST from Decibel Books.



* Rob Clough reviews a few releases from the MINI-KUS! series, including:

– mini-Kus! #14: The Pernicious Kiss by Tiina Lehikoinen.

– mini-Kus! #16: Runaway Dog by Emilie Ostergren.

– mini-Kus! #42: Alien Beings by Laura Kenins.



WHATNOT



* Greg Hunter talks to MICHEL FIFFE on Comic Book Decalogue.



* Joe McCulloch interviews KATIE SKELLY on Inkstuds.



* Zack Soto and Mike Dawson talk to ERIC HAVEN on Process Party.



* Elana Levin interviews REBECCA EPSTEIN on Graphic Policy Radio about her new book, Gently Murder Me.



* RJ Casey talks to JASON MURPHY about “his evolving style, childhood symbolism, and his new short story “The Character”.





* Emma Houxbois‘ powerful unpacking of the death of CHESTER BENNINGTON.



* Iris Cushing on poet NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER‘s new book Crawlspace, which “discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.”



* Joan Nathan makes a perfect DAIRY BORSCHT for these hot summer days.







