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Sjöblom's 'Palimpsest' Is Visually Unlike Most Graphic Memoirs
The title of Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom's graphic memoir, Palimpsest, is an excellent metaphor for adoption generally and especially the literally erased and rewritten documents that define many Korean adoptions. But it is also a visual metaphor.
13 Nov 2019
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Sylvia Nickerson's Graphic Memoir, 'Creation' Is an Emotional Thought Experiment
The differences between Sylvia Nickerson's realistically-depicted homeless and the blob-like privileged establishes Creation's central dichotomy and critique.
30 Sep 2019
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Time, Space, and Ethnic Divisions Collapse in Aimée de Jongh's 'TAXI!'
De Jongh constructs a jigsaw puzzle of personalities, life experiences, and national identities, where even contrasts ultimately reveal connections in her graphic memoir, Taxi!
24 Sep 2019
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Keiler Roberts Creates a Gently Comic, Low-Suspense Universe in Graphic Memoir, Rat Time
Picking up where Chlorine Gardens left off, Keiler Roberts' graphic memoir, Rat Time, wanders artfully and unannounced into memories.
03 Sep 2019
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Frank Santoro's 'Pittsburgh' Is a Permanently Preliminary Sketch of Life
The metaphor of imperfection and transition flows beneath every page of Frank Santoro's graphic memoir, Pittsburgh.
20 Aug 2019
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Change Course! George Takei Warns in 'They Called Us Enemy'
In graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, iconic Star Trek star George Takei draws from his family's experience of Japanese-American internment camps to warn of a potentially dark future.
13 Aug 2019
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Sometimes Words Are Just Too Blunt: Travis Dandro's 'King of King Court'
Travis Dandro's King of King Court is an excellent reminder of how evocatively effective comics are in the hands of a skilled memoirist.
23 Jul 2019
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The Art of Sequential Art in 'The Book of Sarah'
While the art world is full of excellent artists, few have the comics savvy to construct the sort of complex narratives and image-text relationships that Sarah Lightman achieves in her memoir, The Book of Sarah.
21 Jun 2019
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How Male Dominance in French Grammar Affects Julie Delporte's 'This Woman's Work'
Julie Delporte's graphic memoir, This Woman's Work, documents her private and professional search for her place in a male-dominated field and world.
01 Mar 2019
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Nora Krug's 'Belonging' Could Serve as a Model for Understanding Collective Responsibility
In graphic novel Belonging, Nora Krug takes a single idea – her family's involvement in the Second World War and Nazi Germany – and pursues it with relentless, forensic determination.
04 Feb 2019
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Laughing on the Inside with Graphic Memoir 'Chlorine Gardens'
Graphic memoirist Keiler Roberts never cracks a smile in her latest, but that doesn't mean you won't.
28 Sep 2018
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A Mythical Memoir that Draws the Undrawable: 'Passing for Human'
Liana Finck dazzles with her minimalist lines, which include the simple grids of her panels and gutters. Her plot is an artist's plot, a kind of mystery or vision quest.
25 Sep 2018
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On Marguerite Dabaie's Graphic Memoir of Growing Up Palestinian in the US
In The Hookah Girl, Dabaie' portrays herself and her family in an evolving array of styles that creates an underlying instability to her micro-narratives.
22 Jun 2018
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Half Memoir / Half Tribute, 'Fetch' Attests to the Power of the Comic Form
There are plenty of tough moments in this tale, in both the author's personal life and in her struggles to understand her troubled dog, yet there's never any doubt that they belong together.
26 Nov 2017
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Marcelino Truong's 'Saigon Calling' Is a Beautiful Graphic Memoir of a Nightmarish Time
This book offers a poignant and jarring reminder not just of the resilience of the human spirit, but also of its ability to seek solace in the materiality of one's present.
20 Nov 2017
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Truth in Beauty and Beauty in Truth: Graphic Memoir 'Diario de Oaxaca'
Peter Kuper's work reminds us of the vibrant and inspired everyday people who live under the tyranny of petty and corrupt officials in both Mexico and the United States.
09 Nov 2017
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gg's 'I'm Not Here' Is One of the Richest and Gently Disturbing Graphic Novels I've Read in Years
In gg's graphic memoir, I'm Not Here, we travel with the protagonist, suffering the same confusions that define her life.
12 Sep 2017
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A Spoked-wheel View of America by an Award-winning Comics Artist
Eleanor Davis documents her up-hill struggle with America and her weak-kneed self in You & a Bike & a Road.
03 May 2017
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'Everything is Teeth' Explores an Ambiguous Relationship With Art and Memory
Memoirist Evie Wyld and artist Joe Sumner explore beneath the surface of the graphic memoir form.
20 Apr 2017
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Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home feels like an anomaly, a graphic novel with no idea that graphic novels are seldom written this well.
Zachary Garrett
10 Aug 2006
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Based on her experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Marjane Satrapi introduces us to the effects of cultural change through the eyes of a child.
Sarah Tan
10 Nov 2003
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