The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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Posts Tagged: graphic memoir
Sketch Book Reviews: Seek You by Kristen Radtke
An illustrated review of Kristen Radtke’s new book, SEEK YOU!
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When Ideals Meet Reality: The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow
You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #175: Mira Jacob
“I wanted it to feel like it was done with urgency because it was.”
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That’s My Story, Too: Talking with Malaka Gharib
Malaka Gharib discusses her graphic memoir, I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM.
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Less-Than-Linear: A Conversation with Georgia Webber
Georgia Webber discusses DUMB: LIVING WITHOUT A VOICE in an illustrated interview!
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I Am a Camera: Talking with Ali Fitzgerald
Ali Fitzgerald discusses her new graphic memoir, DRAWN TO BERLIN.
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Entertaining and Useful: A Conversation with Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #112: Roz Chast
” I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae. It’s partly how you make something your own.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #110: Gabrielle Bell
“We create little rituals to give us some kind of illusion of safety, to keep ourselves sane.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell discusses her forthcoming graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable, what it was like to mine her own life for subject matter, and how anxiety affects her work.
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Fresh Comics #10: Hot Dog Taste Test
When I started reading this book, I hated it. I thought, this is what happens when an illustrator takes a shot at storytelling. It’s just one drawing after another until you hit the requisite 175 or so pages that equals “book.” I get even grouchier imagining that books like these are dreamed up as a way to […]
...moreA Comic for Dreamers, the Lost, and the Lonely
Sometimes, you get lost. In art, in love, in fantasies-turned-dreams, in your five billion part-time jobs. Sophia Foster-Dimino combines daily minutia with drifting existential questions in her comic, “My Girl.” Read “My Girl” over at Electric Literature, and feel it right in your secretly lonely guts (in a good, comforting way).
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New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights 7-9 p.m. EST in New York City.
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If Alison Bechdel’s Genius grant weren’t reason enough to celebrate, she’s got another graphic memoir due in 2017. As the New York Times puts it: “The Secret to Superhuman Strength” is Ms. Bechdel’s third graphic memoir and chronicles her decades long obsession with various fitness and exercise fads, including downhill skiing, uphill skiing, rollerblading, martial […]
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The Big Idea: Roz Chast
Suzanne Koven talks to Roz Chast about comics, the burdens of elder care, and her new graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
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