Tag: Autobiographical Comics
INDIE VIEW: ‘Hot Comb’ tells masterful stories about hair and race
Hot Comb
By Ebony Flowers
Drawn and Quarterly
In Hot Comb, cartoonist Ebony Flowers ushers me into a world I have no experience with and probably will...
INDIE VIEW: ‘I Was Their American Dream’ celebrates the immigrant experience...
I Was Their American Dream
By Malaka Gharib
Clarkson Potter
In I Was Their American Dream, cartoonist Malaka Gharib displays an infectious enthusiasm for openness as she...
INDIE VIEW: ‘They Called Us Enemy’ lays out the history we’re...
John Seven reviews 'They Called Us Enemy'
INDIE VIEW: ‘Death Threat’ and ‘Paper Pencil Life #6’ offer different...
John Seven reviews 'Death Threat' and 'Paper Pencil Life #6'
INDIE VIEW: Women making their marks in ‘Aurora Borealice’ and ‘Nhun...
John Seven reviews 'Aurora Borealice' and 'Nhun the Huntress'
INDIE VIEW: ‘Babcia,’ ‘Red Ultramarine,’ and the stories we tell ourselves
John Seven reviews 'Babcia' and 'Red Ultramarine,'
Interview: D. Boyd talks ‘Chicken Rising,’ only childhood, and dealing with...
John Seven talks D. Boyd, author of 'Chicken Rising'
Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’
You can go find all the horror comics currently being published and line them up with The Vagabond Valise and probably not find one...
Review: A life unfolds through cassette tapes in ‘All the Sad...
Cassette tapes are one of those things. I don’t know if people who didn’t live decades of their life with cassette tapes as part...
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as...
Review: Michael Kupperman’s haunting quest for ‘All The Answers’
Often in our history, but especially right now, popular culture is an obstructive thing, and one of the main things it keeps us from...