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Maia Kobabe Discusses Eir Career and Eir Book Gender Queer: A Memoir

Nicholas Yanes — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:16:14 +0000

Gender Queer: A Memoir" title="Maia Kobabe Discusses Eir Career and Eir Book Gender Queer: A Memoir" style="float:left;" />Maia Kobabe (pronouns e/em/eir) is a nonbinary, queer writer and illustrator. A graduate of California College of the Arts, Maia has quickly built a tremendous portfolio of work – much of which can be found… [more]

A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 11 – March: Book Two

Ian Dawe — Tue, 24 May 2016 19:15:12 +0000

March: Book Two" title="A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 11 – March: Book Two" style="float:left;" />The history recounted in March: Book Two is, or should be, fairly familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the 20th century. The Freedom Riders and the other struggles of the early 1960s American… [more]

A Tour of the 2016 Eisner Nominees, Part 6 – Two Great Web Comics

Ian Dawe — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:00:07 +0000

As they recognize achievement in all of the widely diverse world of comics, it makes sense that the Eisner Awards have a category for Digital/Webcomics. Two of the nominees this year are Lighten Up, by… [more]

Another Day, Another Dollar: Harvey Pekar’s Last American Splendor

Ian Dawe — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:00:13 +0000

Another Day, Another Dollar: Harvey Pekar’s Last American Splendor" title="Another Day, Another Dollar: Harvey Pekar’s Last American Splendor" style="float:left;" />For the last few years of Harvey Pekar’s life, he was on a creative roll. His American Splendor comic had never really gone away, but in the 1990s and early 2000s, Pekar was focusing more… [more]

Sequential Offers a Great TCAF Collection For Free This Month

Ian Dawe — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:00:34 +0000

The Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) was held last month, with its usual great success in bringing together a diverse array of comics creators from all over the world. Sequential, a free digital comics app… [more]

David Bowie and the Side Effects of Fame

Ian Dawe — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 20:00:35 +0000

It’s easy for us today to think of rock and roll as being a big business, staging huge shows for audiences of teeming thousands, and the people who make the music being lauded as near-Gods.… [more]

Greenpoint of View: A Top-Notch Autobiographical Comic

Ian Dawe — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:00:28 +0000

Greenpoint of View: A Top-Notch Autobiographical Comic" title="Greenpoint of View: A Top-Notch Autobiographical Comic" style="float:left;" />One of the most interesting genres within the diverse world of comics is the autobiographical comic. Pioneered by the legendary Harvey Pekar and others, these comics are a fascinating application of the comics medium to… [more]

Why Ravi Thornton’s Graphic Memoir is an Early Candidate for the Year’s Best

Glen Downey — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:00:38 +0000

At a recent conference I attended for English educators, a panel of writers was discussing the phenomenon of the memoir, and debating what the popularity of the form has to say about today’s readership. The… [more]

Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: John Lewis’s March

Greg Carpenter — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 12:00:41 +0000

March" title="Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: John Lewis’s March" style="float:left;" />The story begins on the Edmund Pettus Bridge with a long line of marchers in the center of the top panel. They walk two-by-two on the left side of the road, hugging the railing, prepared… [more]

On Chicago Public Schools Censoring Persepolis‘s Images of Torture

Julian Darius — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:47:12 +0000

Persepolis‘s Images of Torture" title="On Chicago Public Schools Censoring Persepolis‘s Images of Torture" style="float:left;" />In the recent discussions over censorship of Persepolis in Chicago public schools, there’s been a notable lack of discussion over why anyone would want the book removed — and what such reasoning represents. The series… [more]

Live Chat with Artist JT Waldman at Tufts University

A. David Lewis — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:00:26 +0000

This is the page for the live chat with JT Waldman, artist of Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic novel by autobiographical comics legend Harvey Pekar. The chat was recorded live… [more]