Literary Comics

Review: ‘Song of Aglaia’ puts a complicated, heady feminist spin on tired old myths...

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Taking the traditional tropes of myths and legends and turning them on their heads, Song of Aglaia has French cartoonist Anne Simon trace the fairy...

Crowdfunding Watch: Carpet Merchants, Barbarous Landlords and Crime-Fighting Bards

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We take a look at three gorgeously fun crowdfunding projects featuring: The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya, Barbarous, and No Holds Bard.

Review: Manuele Fior’s ‘Blackbird Days’ examines the mechanics of transformation

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Blackbird Days, an anthology of shorter work by Italian graphic novelist Manuele Fior, gathers stories from the past decade, but this is no casual...

Graphic Novel TK Episode 8: The Contract

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Episode 8: The Contract  It's contracts time! But what does that mean? What's involved in the process of coming to an agreement with a publisher? What...

Review: ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ not hard to enjoy

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The Angouleme-winning Monsieur Jean series by Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian is celebrated here with It Don’t Come Easy, a collection of some of...

Review: ‘I, Parrot’ advocates finding your own voice

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On the surface, I, Parrot is a madcap farce about taking care of 42 parrots as it snowballs into absurdity on almost a surreal...

Review: ‘It’s Cold In The River At Night’ presents love as an unknown country

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Strangers in an unnamed European rural area, Carl and Rita have moved into a house on stilts in the water, the last of its...

Review: Making sense of Mauretania in ‘The New World’

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Subtitled “Comics from Mauretania,” the stories in Chris Reynolds’ The New World don’t take place in the African country of the same name, but...

Graphic Novel TK Episode 4: Agents!

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We’re back with another installment of Graphic Novel TK, your podcast guide to comic book publishing, co-hosted by Alison Wilgus and Gina Gagliano. Listen to the new episode...

Review: Eric Haven’s comics bring madness and sanity together for a hug

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Eric Haven’s new collection of short works, Compulsive Comics, offers good laughs and vigorous surrealism, and you can easily enjoy it for those two...

REVIEW: Speak: The Graphic Novel Brings its Powerful Message to a New Generation

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Speak, by author Laurie Halse Anderson, was first published in 1999 to wonderful reviews and a whole lot of controversy. Anderson's first novel helped...

Review: French surrealist Nicole Claveloux celebrated in new collection

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Compiled of stories from the 1970s, The Green Hand and Other Stories presents for the first time translated into English the work of French...

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