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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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.
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Based on her own personal 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
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