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‘Dancing After TEN’ Graphic Memoir Will Move You

I’m always intrigued when I see two authors listed on a graphic memoir. I know

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‘Perramus: The City and Oblivion’ Depicts Argentina’s Violent Anti-Communist...

Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia's graphic novel, 'Peraramus: The City and Oblivion', is an absurd and existential odyssey about a political dissident who can't remember his name.

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Isolation Resonates in Tomine’s Ode to Loneliness

Adrian Tomine's talent in communicating the intimate, minute details of his life serves to make them universal, even more in these times of COVID-19

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Leslie Stein’s Thoughtful and Honest Memoir About Abortion

“What do I do now? What do I do? You do the same thing you

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Tomine’s Anti-Memoir, ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist’

Few comics artists are more highly regarded than Adrian Tomine. Though none of his books

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Graphic Novel ‘Cuisine Chinoise’ Is a Feast for the Eyes and the Mind

There are few books of which it can be said they’re worth buying for the

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Sikoryak’s ‘Constitution Illustrated’ Pays Homage to Comics and the Constitution

Sikoryak's satirical pairings in Constitution Illustrated breathe new and sometimes uncomfortable life into the United States' most living document.

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Manga ‘The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud’ Is a Superb Collection of Kuniko...

Concomitant with the explosive global popularity of manga and its permeating global markets and languages,

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Joe Sacco’s ‘Paying the Land’ Reflects Journalistic Nuance in a Way Other...

If anyone doubts the urgency of the subject matter in Joe Sacco‘s latest work, his

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Comics Artists Yanow and  Hanawalt Draw Vastly Different Self-Portraits

“Cartoon” can mean a lot of things. As a drawing style, those things usually include

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‘The Art of Drag’ Captivates and Unites

As the LGBTQ+ movement for equality increasingly shifts its focus from mainstream representations of the

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It’s Funny, Reading the “Funnies” in a Newspaper in 2020

Design Face Eye by Geralt (Pixabay License / Pixabay) I really never intended to start

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C.C. Tsai’s ‘Dao De Jing’ Has Visual Rhythm

Chih-chung Tsai, a renown Taiwanese cartoonist, publishes as C. C. Tsai in English. Dao De

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‘World War 3 Illustrated #51: The World We Are Fighting For’

In spite of everything that’s happened since Trump joined the stage of the 2016 Republican

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Heathen’s Queer Feminist Vikings Are the Heroines Pop Culture Needed

The world of pop culture is awash in Vikings these days. From streaming television shows

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Tommy Siegel’s Comic ‘I Hope This Helps’ Pokes at Social Media Addiction

In early 2018, 12 February specifically, musician and comics artist Tommy Siegel embarked on an

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Bishakh Som’s ‘Spellbound’ Is an Innovative Take on the Graphic Memoir

Bishakh Som‘s graphic memoir, Spellbound, is an innovative and captivating tale, an attractively drawn and

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How ‘Watchmen’ and ‘The Boys’ Deconstruct American Fascism

“And imperfect men, possessing superhuman material power, are not a reassuring prospect.”— Marshall McLuhan,The Mechanical

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The Power of Restraint in Sophie Yanow, Paco Roca, and Elisa Macellari’s New...

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, and the maxim is even

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Are Marjane Satrapi’s Works Comics or Graphic Novels?

Marjane Satrapi is a complicated woman at the intersection of overlapping identity factors. Persepolis and Embroideries provide facets through which to view these complexities.

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