Author name: Stephen Geigen-Miller

Stephen Geigen-Miller writes comics, prose and free-associative paragraphs that seemed to make some sort of sense at the time. His geekdoms are many and long-standing, and include science fiction, fantasy, comics, tabletop role-playing games, and endearingly bad kaiju movies. Stephen co-created and co-wrote the scifi comic series Xeno’s Arrow with writer/artist Greg Beettam. He co-created and wrote the trope-tacular urban fantasy webcomic Cold Iron Badge with artist Patrick Heinicke. Stephen lives in Toronto, works at the University of Toronto, and has two children. He writes in the bits and pieces of time in between everything else. You can learn more about him via his blog, or follow him on Twitter.

Free Planet, Volume 1 - cover
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Comics Review: Free Planet, Volume 1

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If it wasn’t clear by now, in addition to being very good comics, this is very good science fiction. There are many ways to approach science fiction in the comics form, but this might be the most genuinely speculative, the most deeply considered and textured, the most well-thought-out future history of any comic I’ve read since my old friend Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder – and Finder was one of my favorite comics of all time. There are no SFFnal elements that feel extraneous, tacked-on, or like they’re there just for Rule of Cool.

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Comics Review: The Witch’s Egg, by Donya Todd

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The keen sense of visual design contrasts the childlike aspects of the character art. That’s not due to a lack of skill; this is clearly deliberate. There really is a striking degree of intentionality, here. The level of detail and the superabundance of decoration in the art and the page layouts makes that very clear.

Cover to The Collected Neil the Horse, by Katherine Collins
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Comics Review: The Collected Neil the Horse

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Well, I found my comics Holy Grail, at the 2017 Toronto Comics Arts Festival, where I met the creator and was able to purchase a then-brand-new complete collection of the comic. It was a funny-animal comic, influenced by classic comic strips and really classic — like, pre-Warner Brothers — cartoons. A comic by a Canadian creator. A comic that was… a musical comedy?!

Young Men In Love: New Romance, cover by Ricardo Bessa
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Comics Review: Young Men In Love: New Romance

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So when I received a review copy of a new anthology of gay male romance comics that, per the publicist, “…hearkens back to the days when romance comics topped the sales charts and it enlivens romance novel collections with a fun genre mix, all while joyfully celebrating Pride with its unambiguous focus on cis- and trans men in love by creators who know exactly how it feels.”

Well, I was sold.

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