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A review by hypops
Egg Cream #1 by Liz Suburbia
5.0
Now is the point at which I declare Liz Suburbia to be one of the best working cartoonists. This is also the point at which those who have already recognized this roll their eyes and tell me that I’m ridiculously late to this particular party. No matter. I’m just stoked to have stumbled my way in the door.
El Sub is way rad.
I was stunned by Cyanide Milkshake. Now I’m totally floored by what I’m reading in Egg Cream. LS isn’t simply influenced by Los Bros Hernández; Liz “El Sub” Suburbia just proved herself to be their long lost hermana!
In this one-woman anthology, we get the continued story of Sacred Heart (her first major book) as well as an incredible comic that does super-short riffs on dreams. Like the rest of her work, this comic expresses the full range of possible emotions when people are faced with the need to “just get by” and survive. It’s funny. It’s gut-wrenchingly tragic. It’s real. It’s ridiculous. This book feels like life as I know it.
And most remarkable of all, like the characters in Love & Rockets, Suburbia’s characters all look and act like me and the people I know and love. She gets it, just like Los Bros do.
El Sub is way rad.
I was stunned by Cyanide Milkshake. Now I’m totally floored by what I’m reading in Egg Cream. LS isn’t simply influenced by Los Bros Hernández; Liz “El Sub” Suburbia just proved herself to be their long lost hermana!
In this one-woman anthology, we get the continued story of Sacred Heart (her first major book) as well as an incredible comic that does super-short riffs on dreams. Like the rest of her work, this comic expresses the full range of possible emotions when people are faced with the need to “just get by” and survive. It’s funny. It’s gut-wrenchingly tragic. It’s real. It’s ridiculous. This book feels like life as I know it.
And most remarkable of all, like the characters in Love & Rockets, Suburbia’s characters all look and act like me and the people I know and love. She gets it, just like Los Bros do.