Tag: biography
INDIE VIEW: From monkeys and men to myths and marks
Mini Kuš! #69: Maud
By Marlene Krause
Kuš Komiksi
This recent entry in the long series of wildly inventive and artistically-experimental little booklets from Latvia takes on the life of tattooed woman Maud Wagner, who became a...
Review: Weegee biography captures the big picture
Let it be said upfront that in this more enlightened time, legendary photograph Weegee is not the kind of person that is given a lot of sympathy. He is, to put it in current...
Review: The Bursting Beauty of Niki de Saint Phalle
When the biographies of so many celebrated male artists are revealed as chronicles self-destruction where the subjects too often allow themselves to become awash in their weakest points, this biography of painter and sculptor...
Review – The Riveting Biography of a Compelling Journalist in Joe Ollmann’s The Abominable...
Joe Ollmann's The Abominable Mr. Seabrook is a riveting read. An incredibly compelling portrait of a man whose life is the very definition of "larger than life" turned into an engaging page turner under the...
Review: Daniel Johnston biography sets a whole new standard
As biographical graphic novels go, you’ve never read anything like The Incantations Of Daniel Johnston, a poetic, frenetic dive through the mind of the singer/songwriter, using it as a filter through which the larger...
