Alberta Comics Love

by Alexander Finbow (Editor), Shea Proulx (Editor), Jiliian Fleck (Illustrator)

Genres: Graphic Novels

136 pages, Paperback

Published September 17, 2025

About the author

When I'm not publishing wonderful stories written and drawn by fantastic creators, I am writing and collaborating on stories from my imagination that I want to share with readers.

You'll find me over at http://www.renegadeartsentertainment.... most of the time, as well as instagram https://www.instagram.com/alexanderfi...

Currently working on the follow-up to When Big Bears Invade with Nyco Rudolph, as well as Bloodlight with Al Davison (need to get past the writers block and get this one finished, sorry Al!) and Sand, a novel.

Reviews

[Felix · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't imagine how challenging it must be to convey something as complex as love into only 2-3 pages of comics. The artists mostly succeeded though, each in their own different style. One of the comics hit really close to home and I could not stop crying... It was worth it

[Cayley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Support local anthologies and nuns in love and Sasquatch being so cute.

[Alberta Views Magazine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alberta Comics: Love is a joyful and sometimes heartbreaking anthology of 48 stories—comics and graphic narratives—from emerging and well-known artists around the province. Each piece in this slim volume is between one and five pages long, so readers get only a taste of a story before jumping into the next one. As described in the short introduction, the anthology aims to “Examin[e] ideas of what constitutes true love, reframing everything panel by panel, with no one person claiming a definitive answer.”

Each piece here is an intimate sharing of something the artist loves. Which is not to say this is a saccharine book. Romantic stories abound, such as the playful “Muse,” by Molly Receveur, or Simone Stehouwer’s achingly sweet “Rock,” but many of the comics end with a laugh, like Aaron Navrady’s about crafting a balloon dog from a condom or Eric Dyck accidentally spotting turkey vultures… erm, reuniting. There are also delightfully weird pairings—Bigfoot and an FBI agent, a computer virus and its host, a rat and a living cardboard box, to name a few. Jarret Hartnell, in “Connection Never Severed,” hand-illustrates every panel in an array of glowing colours...

Review by Quin Lancaster
Full review at https://albertaviews.ca/alberta-comic...

[Anastasia MacKenzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25 As with most anthologies, a wide range of quality. But enjoyable overall. I wish the stories were a bit longer, it's hard to get into something that's only 1-2 pages long.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love that this anthology exists