Brawl #1
By Dean Haspiel and Michel Fiffe
Image Comics
If there’s one thing that ties Dean Haspiel and Michel Fiffe’s halves of Brawl together, right the bat, it’s the feeling the reader gets of being somewhat lost in the proceedings. It’s clear by the end of both that, despite the fact that this installment comprises a third [...]

Awesome
Edited by Indie Spinner Rack
Evil Twin Comics
Despite of the absurd amount of talent currently floating around in the alternative comics scene, it seems that quality anthologies are perpetually few and far between. Ask anyone with a bit of knowledge about the scene to recommend a good collection, and they’ll likely point you in the direction [...]

Reich 1 and 2
Elijah J. Brubaker
Sparkplug Books
‘I fully expect many readers to disagree with my interpretations of [Wilhelm] Reich’s life,’ Elijah Brubaker announces in the inside-cover introduction to the first issue of Reich.  For the majority of his potential readers, Brubaker’s preemptive apology is likely to prove unnecessary.
After all, as he correctly posits in the [...]

Hey all. Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, and a special thanks goes out to Sarah M, who helped helm the Hatch while I was out of the country. I spent the week in Costa Rica, succumbing to car crashes, stolen cameras, customs officers, bad Internet connections, and constant rain—still, as far as vacations go, [...]

A couple dozen cartoonists walk into an aquatic fowl-themed Bushwick bar. A healthy amount of alcohol is imbibed. The results are recorded by a duo of comic podcasters celebrating the significant milestone that is episode 100. I will happily state, for the record, that as both a member of the studio audience and an impromptu [...]

Tom Kaczynski may be familiar to you if you read mini-comics, Fantagraphics’ quarterly MOME publication, or this website. He is also in regular attendance at most indie comics shows, such as MoCCA and SPX.
It’s the day after Thanksgiving. Right now you’re probably stuffed with tryptophan and looking for a reason to stay home. I recommend [...]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Today we at the Cross Hatch are thankful for little Eli Kochalka, age 4, who kindly drew us today’s holiday guest strip. The lettering is courtesy of his pops, James. Thanks oodles, Kochalkas!
-Sarah Morean

24Seven Volume 2
Edited by Ivan Brandon
Image Comics

Is there any subject matter quite so rife with fictional fodder as artificial intelligence? Editor Ivan Brandon and team answer the question with a decidedly firm ‘probably not,’ with this second volume of the densely-packed robot short story anthology, 24Seven. The stories contained in the book cover a [...]

Only Skin Issues 1-2
By Sean Ford
Self-Published
I love writing these reviews. I love getting comics in the mail. Sometimes it can be frustrating, however, when I receive a few issues of a comic that contain an incomplete story. Particularly when the author has written an engrossing and interesting story like Sean Ford has [...]

 
[Image courtesy of Flickr.] 
Whether you’re aware of it or not, there’s a good chance that you, dear Internet frequenter, are a reader of Cory Doctorow’s work. As a primary contributor to Boing Boing, perhaps the Web’s foremost aggregator of wonderful miscellany, Doctorow has established himself as one of the most influential bloggers around.
Doctorow has also distinguished [...]