A year of free comics – 2019 edition – Rebecca Roher’s look at how people lead a good life
A Year of Free Comics: Rebecca Roher’s comics take on tough subjects
Canadian artist Rebecca Roher won the Doug Wright Award for her graphic novel Bird in a Cage, about a woman’s descent into dementia and a family’s struggle to deal with it. A heavy topic, but Roher uses a sketchy, all ages friendly style that makes such painful things more palatable. The first part is free […]
Review: Rebecca Roher’s tender family memories are a pleasing meditation on loss
For many people, the earliest experience of human loss that pierces their emotions and affects their everyday existence is the death of a grandparent, and that of a grandmother, I have found, anyway, seems to pack a particular wallop. Some grandmothers participate in a kid’s life as a kind of back-up parent, others as a […]