Tag: Autobiographical Comics
INDIE VIEW: ‘Persephone’s Garden’ maps out love, loss, and the passing of time
Persephone's Garden
By Glynnis Fawkes
Secret Acres
Making its debut at SPX this year, Glynnis Fawkes names this collection of diary comics that were created over a seven year span of her life after a garden that...
INDIE VIEW: ‘Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat’ savors life’s in-between moments
Taxi! Stories From the Back Seat
By Aimee de Jongh
Conundrum Press
The inside of a taxi is a strange space, in that for one person it is familiar because that person occupies it for long periods...
INDIE VIEW: ‘No Ivy League’ mixes displacement and kindness
Memoir of a homeschooler meeting the outside world asks the big questions.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Floppy #1’ and ‘Desolation Bay’ tell different kinds of histories
Two Massachusetts cartoonists put intellectual and poetic heft into their comics.
INDIE VIEW: ‘Silver Wire’ and ‘The American Dream’ search for meaning in history
Kriota Willberg and Shing Yin Khor examine the remnants of the past that sit silently in the present.
INDIE VIEW: ‘King of King Court’ celebrates the power of telling your own story
This dysfunctional family memoir is a triumph of resilience
INDIE VIEW: Making new lives in ‘Walking Uphill’ and ‘Rose’
Rose: A Double Life
Written by Denis Lapière and Émilie Alibert
Illustrated by Valérie Vernay
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Europe Comics
The first of a trilogy of books, Rose: A Double Life finds the titular character facing...
INDIE VIEW: ‘How I Tried To Be A Good Person’ and the dangers of...
How I Tried to Be a Good Person
By Ulli Lust
Fantagraphics Books
Some things just seem like bad ideas, like they are inevitably going to head south and metastatize into a disaster, and if things go...
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 never, the world of African American hair styling. More importantly,...
INDIE VIEW: ‘I Was Their American Dream’ celebrates the immigrant experience as crucial to...
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 relates her experience as the child of immigrants, a Filipino...
INDIE VIEW: ‘They Called Us Enemy’ lays out the history we’re doomed to repeat
John Seven reviews 'They Called Us Enemy'
INDIE VIEW: ‘Death Threat’ and ‘Paper Pencil Life #6’ offer different approaches to meditative...
John Seven reviews 'Death Threat' and 'Paper Pencil Life #6'
