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Banned Books Week to Highlight Graphic Novels

This year’s annual Banned Books Week—a celebration of books that have been banned—will target graphic novels, those picture-filled narratives better known as comic books. And that’s exactly why Banned Books…

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Reading for the Numbers

Former child star Wil Wheaton read twenty-one books last year, meeting his annual goal on GoodReads of twenty books. Then the Internet flogged him for having a goal of only…

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Of Maus and Men

Arguably, no other story has been made to express absolute black and absolute white as clearly as World War II. So how can an artist integrate the textures of grey…

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CONGRATULATIONS, MARINAOMI!

Our own MariNaomi represented at this year’s SPACE Awards. (SPACE stands for the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo.) Smoke in Your Eyes took 2nd place in the Webcomic Category. And her memoir, Kiss…

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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

“I’m sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and…

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The Rumpus Interview with Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is a living legend (and I say this from the point of view of a queerish autobio cartoonist).

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Features & Reviews

Goliath Excerpt

Today brought the release of Goliath by Tom Gauld (who was featured in our Spotlight Series this past fall). Boing Boing shares a seven-page excerpt from the Drawn & Quarterly…

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Life Under the City

This weekend, Anthony Horton died in a fire in a New York subway tunnel. Horton, who had made a home in the tunnels, was the co-author of Pitch Black, a…

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Graphic Renaissance

“If a comic can serve as the mediating mask of tragedy, that might help explain why graphic novels are proving so successful in depicting not only torture and war but…

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Action! Violence! Jilted Lovers! Pulp History!

David Talbot, former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, came into Red Hill Books recently to drop off his latest creation, Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story Of The Man Who Saved America,…

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The Power of Graphic Novels

“We live in an anxiety about language now, I think, that has created (a) boom, an Age of Euphemism, and I do think there’s something about the comic that can…

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Refresh, Refresh

A new graphic novel translates Benjamin Percy’s short story about children of the Iraq war into brilliant color.

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