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Author: Jon Aye

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Single – Jiří Franta’s Existential Graphic Novel is a Story of Burgeoning Self-Reflexivity

  • by Jon Aye
  • April 11, 2023

The first time we meet the unnamed main character of Jiří Franta’s Single he is a distant speck, a potentially overlooked feature of the scene, alone and stranded on top…

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The Sisters Dietl – Vojtěch Mašek’s Centrala Graphic Novel Delivers a Dark, Brooding and Atmospheric Story

  • by Jon Aye
  • February 14, 2023

Dreams are the way they are because they operate at the intersection of the left and right sides of the brain, the place between the soup-like repository of experience and…

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Zenith – Centrala’s New Book from Maria Medem Lingers Like a Dream that Bleeds into Waking Life

  • by Jon Aye
  • January 19, 2023

Maria Medem’s body of work seems to exist as a record of some alternative envisioned landscape. There are certain key formal aspects to her style: a fine, clear-line for example,…

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Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine – Mohammad Sabaaneh Provides an Award-Winning Account of Imprisonment, Confinement and Interrogation

  • by Jon Aye
  • November 15, 2022

In 2013, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh was detained while crossing the King Hussain checkpoint between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. This wasn’t altogether unexpected, as Sabaaneh has been working…

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Strays – Chris W. Kim’s SelfMadeHero Graphic Novel is a Powerful and Emotional Experience

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 30, 2022

For someone that has experienced a psychological trauma, the natural impulse is to seek out a safe space and take refuge. But the problem never goes away, it simply stays…

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The Domesticated Afterlife – Scott Finch Introduces Us to His Absurdist World in an Ambitious and Impressive Read

  • by Jon Aye
  • March 8, 2022

At about the midway point in Scott Finch’s The Domesticated Afterlife, one character advises another: ‘Things are getting weird. Roll with it.’ He’s right, of course, but he’s understating, and…

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