Bishakh Som’s ‘Spellbound’ Is an Innovative Take on the Graphic Memoir
Bishakh's Som's graphic memoir, Spellbound, serves as a reminder that trans memoirs need not hinge on transition narratives, or at least not on the ones we are used to seeing.
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Tomine’s Anti-Memoir, ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist’
There's something perversely entertaining for a memoir about the career of its successful author to stay so relentlessly focused on failures as Tomine.
Leslie Stein’s Thoughtful and Honest Memoir About Abortion
The sensitively depicted graphic memoir I Know You Rider is the story of an abortion, but more than that it's a moment in time in Leslie Stein's life.
Isolation Resonates in Tomine’s Ode to Loneliness
Tomine's talent in communicating the intimate, minute details of his life only serve to make them universal, even moreso in these times of COVID-19. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is his isolationist memoir.
‘Dancing After TEN’ Graphic Memoir Will Move You
Art dances with loss in the moving double-memoir by comics artists Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber, Dancing After TEN.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.