Alex Graham’s Covid-Era Comic ‘Dog Biscuits’ Has a Lot of Bark
Alex Graham’s Covid-Comic Dog Biscuits intersects with social justice issues, “woke” culture, social media, gender dynamics, ambivalence, and the complications of making mistakes.
Books
Nate Powell’s Graphic Non-Fiction ‘Save It for Later’ Urges Readers to Remember the Trump Era
Life during the destructive Trump era spurred a new level of activism. Nate Powell’s collection of comics essays, ‘Save It for Later’, wants to keep that fire going.
Award-Winning Argentinian Novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’ Climbs and Weaves Like a Vine
In award-winning Argentinian novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’, the storylines tend to flirt with the uncertain borderline demarcating the merely zany from the farcical.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun’ Is a Simple Story about Complicated Things
There is nothing artificial about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara of ‘Klara and the Sun’. That’s the tragedy and the irony of being an Artificial Friend.
A Music of Words: Interview with Author Wesley Brown
Black American author Wesley Brown’s prose is assembled like notes on sheet music, his political assertions the staves that backdrop the story.
The Martian Chronicles: A Tale of Two Apocalypses
Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles calls out from the past to our time of pandemic and NASA’s Mars Space Rover: however far our reach may be there is no escape for humankind from humankind.
Ballad of Big Hair: Los Angeles’ Glam Metal Scene Rises from the Ash Heap
The authors of a new and expansive oral history talk with us about Los Angeles’ 1980s glam metal scene and their book, Nöthin’ But a Good Time.
‘Louder Than Bombs’ Argues That Wherever Music Exists, War Exists
Music, correspondent Ed Vulliamy argues in his memoir, ‘Louder Than Bombs’, evokes the same emotions as war.
Hauntings, Dystopia, and the English Outsider in Guy Mankowski’s Albion’s Secret History
Guy Mankowski’s book on pop culture in England, Albion’s Secret History, celebrates the unsung.
The Strange and the Disturbingly Familiar in Sci-Fi Graphic Fiction, ‘Peepers’
Even the scenery in sci-fi graphic fiction ‘Peepers’ looks like the lucid dreams of a Fauvist painter on acid.
Vanessa Springora’s Memoir, ‘Consent’, Confronts Child Predators and Their Enablers
French writer and publisher Vanessa Springora brings childrens’ rights to the fore in her memoir, ‘Consent’.