Comics
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Fresh Comics #7: Giving Up The Ghost
If you’ve never heard of Whit Taylor, then now is the perfect time to discover her. Ghost (2015) is her understated masterpiece, self-published just months ago. As I began reading the book, I thought I was in for a nice little story…
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HORN! REVIEWS: Jamaica Inn
It took Hitchcock and a team of writers to manage it, but this novel is unkillable.
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Spotlight: “Mind” by Colleen Louise Barry
“Mind” is an installment of the ongoing comic series Idiomatic from writer and artist Colleen Louise Barry.
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Spotlight: Kate Gavino’s “You! Me! Dancing!”
The end of a decade-long dance party turns into a reflection on anxiety, community, and pop songs.
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Fresh Comics #6: Abortion, Comics Style
Comics is a great medium for communicating complex or divisive topics, and so it makes sense that embedded within comics history we can find stories of abortion. Insane as it is that in 2015—forty-two years since Roe v. Wade—politicos are still arguing…
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Afrofuturism and Optimism in Black Panther
At Lit Hub, Aaron Counts looks at writing afrofuturism in comics. Specifically, Counts discusses the upcoming run of Marvel’s Black Panther series by Ta-Nehisi Coates and how Coates’s nonfiction could inform the newest incarnation of Black Panther.
