The Comics Journal

Dina Kelberman’s comics are filled with contradictions. They have a strongly misanthropic quality, yet an unfailingly social one as well. There’s a frequent self-negating air about them (the many “should I quit art?” ruminations), yet the strips keep coming out relentlessly. Her characters are minimalist, geometric shapes that berate each other and themselves in frequently hilarious fashion. Her use of color is boldly original and frequently dissonant. She brings her background as a multimedia artist to bear on her comics in the way she incorporates interesting design elements into her lettering and cultivates the immediacy and off-the-cuff nature of a do-it-yourself project.