Tag: women in comics
Review: Retrofit offers tons of excellent comics by women
Bear, Bird, and Stag Were Arguing In The Forest and Other Stories by Madeline Flores
Flores offers three philosophical shorter works that come together well in...
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,...
Review: The darker beauty of Cathy G. Johnson’s ‘Gorgeous’
This short, spare, poetic, emotionally brutal piece from Cathy G. Johnson and Koyama Press captures the intersection of three lives, and the unlikely self...
Review: Melissa Mendes’ ‘Lou’ charts family dynamics in a charming, honest way
Massachusetts cartoonist Melissa Mendes has a knack for comics that not only center on kids, but present the world from their points of view...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War...
Review: Japanese artist Rokudenashiko charts the real obscenity in her memoir
Just yesterday it was reported that a Japanese court had found artist Rokudenashiko’s vagina figurines to be considered art and not obscenity, but less...
Review: How did I miss Andrea Tsurumi???
I’m ashamed to admit that prior to reading Why Would You Do That? from Hic and Hoc, which will debut at TCAF this weekend,...
2016 Eisner Nominations: women receive a record 61 nominations
The nominations are out! This year's Eisners are a pretty diverse bunch, and this year's panel REALLY broke away from thye Marvel/DC axis, with Fantagraphics and...
Review: Julia Wertz’s thoughtful and healing style of self-deprecation
Julia Wertz’s Eisner-nominated Drinking At The Movies, originally from 2010 but here with a handsome reissue from Koyama Press, is renowned for its humorous...
Comix Creatrix: the blockbuster art show is now a free 200 page book about...
The timing was fortuitous with Angoulême-gate, but Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics an art show co-curated by Olivia Ahmad and Paul Gravett ...
Review: Kelly Froh & Dan Mazur’s two non-fiction delights
The Weekend Casserole Collection by Kelly Froh
Froh brings together a number of short pieces from various sources — anthologies she’s contributed to, some of...
Review: Meags Fitzgerald continues her autobiographical innovations with Long Red Hair
In Meags Fitzgerald’s previous book, Photobooth: A Biography, which documented just about anything you ever wondered about photo booths, she went far beyond her...
