A few years ago, not long after her debut Stone Fruit had won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics, and was listed as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,…
There are presumably two kinds of people who adore the work of Tom Gauld and rush out to purchase anything he puts out. The first are those who can’t help…
Earlier this year, an English translation of Shirato Sanpei’s celebrated tale of ninjas in seventeenth century Japan was published by Drawn & Quarterly. This was remarkable for several reasons, starting…
“Girls like you…men just want you for your body. I’m a man. I would know.” The comment raises all kinds of red flags, for men as well as women, because…
There is a page, midway through this excellent biography, that documents how comics were printed in 1936. It shows how artwork was transferred from paper to copper plates, then mounted…
Is this really the first of what are meant to be 40 volumes? Is Cornelius an iconic comic that has been around longer than most of us? Has the anthropomorphic…
The coming-of-age novel, in any medium, has long been favoured by writers trying to make sense of their own particular worlds. In the hands of Eagle Valiant Brosi, however, it…
There’s a lot going on in Katie Fricas’s debut, for those who take time to stop and check out the proverbial roses. There are little flourishes on every page of…
There are some people who are as familiar with the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge as most of us are with what Hollywood stars seem to be working on….
If you have to look up what it means, you probably aren’t very punk. That idea has been around for almost as long as the music, which is a long…
It has long turned into a cliché: our collective need to hail books about the environment or environmentalism as timely or relevant. It is a cliché because, despite how good…
“I like the idea of creating comics for people who might not otherwise read them. People who enjoy watching classic British TV soaps, for example.” That’s how Paul B. Rainey…
There may be an easy way of paraphrasing Lawrence Lindell’s new book. Here goes one attempt: Things may sometimes be hard, but we should remind ourselves that there are always…
In April 2024, the Governor of Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture was compelled to announce his resignation after making a speech that sparked debate across the country. Apparently, while speaking to newly…
It takes a while to pull at all the threads running through Rachel Ang’s stories in this, her debut collection. When one does manage it, however, there is a prevailing…
María Medem thinks about colour a lot. This isn’t a speculative statement as much as it is a declaration based on work the Spanish artist has been putting out from…
“I thought being tethered to our computers even more would help push us to demand a more democratic, collectively-owned vision of the Internet, but I’m not sure I really saw…
The last time we saw Aya, much had changed in the life of the young woman and her friends on the Ivory Coast. Claws Come Out was a great, if pithy…
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