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Review: 'Ball Peen Hammer' by Adam Rapp and George O'ConnorReview: ‘Ball Peen Hammer’ by Adam Rapp and George O’Connor

By Sanford Allen, on June 2nd, 2010

“Ball Peen Hammer’s” cover image of a knock-kneed woman with combat boots and a gas mask wielding a rusty pipe suggests the graphic novel might be an absurdist black comedy akin to Dan Clowes’ classic “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron.”

It isn’t.

Instead, author Adam Rapp and artist George O’Connor give us [Read it all...]

Review: Foiled by Jane Yolen and Mike CavallaroReview: Foiled by Jane Yolen and Mike Cavallaro

By Peter Loxsom, on March 5th, 2010

I have always appreciated the power of the graphic novel as a story telling medium especially when it rises above the comic forms roots of superheroes, and other male adolescent power fantasies to embrace a richer narrative and deeper characters. With that firmly in mind I was quite happy to engross myself in Foiled from [Read it all...]

JOHN PICACIO is a World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo Award-nominated illustrator of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature.
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SANFORD ALLEN is a musician and author with more than two dozen horror and dark fantasy stories published.
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PAUL VAUGHN is a graphic artist, web designer, writer, consultant and all around techno-geek.
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SCOTT A. CUPP is a writer whose work has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.
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