Claire Connelly's comics are more targeted than those of her contemporaries. Tom Gauld, author of Goliath and Mooncop, favors the relative complexity of situational irony. Red Giant's Rich Foster, a promising comic creator in the San Francisco Bay Area, takes time to highlight the grittiness of character flaws. Image's Malachi Ward, author of From Now On, injects his stories with more dialogue than most writers of "epigrammatic gloom" bother to include (though, in the case of From Now On, the dialogue works well). Paper Crown, however, explores a single experience, strips that experience raw, and then exposes it to the reader with thick, black silhouettes and volcanic color. Paper Crown is a tricky comic: Connelly filled the five-page story with ideas that are both plain and potent. Seemingly dormant"until they erupt. Read Full Review
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