Spotlight: “Roving Woman”
How sad, sure, but also how haunting, thrilling, lovely, and sweet.
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Posts Tagged: Spotlight
Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet
In 1999 I was five. I was really just discovering comics for the first time—mostly by reading Spiderman.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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Spotlight: “The Crone’s Guide to Menopause”
The sunlit meadow is boring. We leave it behind.
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Spotlight: “Where Women’s Stories Go to Die”
An exploration of the toxic misogyny women artists experience in the workplace.
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Spotlight: “Fashion Dos and Don’ts 2050: Climate Apocalypse Edition”
A satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
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Spotlight: “Moon Moth” by Dylan Webb
In “Moon Moth,” Dylan Webb braids narratives amidst puppy love and quiet woods.
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Spotlight: “Survivors” by Aubrey Hirsch
But more and more I began to wonder if you needed to be human to be a person.
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Spotlight: “My Grandfather’s Seders” by Joey Perr
The artist’s father remembers his grandfather’s Passover Seders.
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Spotlight: “Fifteen” by Kevin Reilly
On a quiet night in 1987, a teenage boy receives transmissions from beyond.
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Spotlight: “Rooftops of My Youth” by Frances Cannon
A comic describing the illustrator’s childhood adventures and misadventures climbing rooftops of all sorts.
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Spotlight: “In Memory Of” by Aubrey Nolan
A comic about remembering a person who has passed away, and how that process changes over time.
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Spotlight: “Perfect Sisters” by Joyanna M and Lily Bell
“Sister Love” touches on how a traditional family can fail the victim of domestic violence, and how that failure can compound the victim’s trauma.
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Spotlight: “The Killers” by Dasha Zibrova
My own cat Moorka, with whom I have long and fruitful but complicated relationship, inspired this comic strip.
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Spotlight: “Senator” by Lauren Haldeman
How much clarity do we have in our understanding of reality? What faults exist in our perception of the world?
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of Boundless
Brandon Hicks reviews Boundless, a new graphic novel from Jillian Tamaki.
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Spotlight: “My 30-Second Meditation” by Olivia de Recat
“My 30-Second Meditation” is an account of a recent attempt at a 30-minute self-guided meditation. On a totally unrelated note, how good is Sterling K. Brown in This Is Us?
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Spotlight: “Unofficial History” by Arwen Donahue
“Unofficial History” takes place on a 21st-century Kentucky farm, yet the landscape of the Holocaust is nearer than it might seem.
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Spotlight: Eamon Murphy’s “The Test”
“The Test” tells a brief, hypothetical history of the human civilization in the wake of an ominous interaction with an intergalactic deity.
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Spotlight: “Mary Tyler Moore” by Janice Shapiro
As a teenager in the early 1970s there was no one I wanted more to be than Mary Tyler Moore. I was heartbroken by her recent passing. I still wish I was her.
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Spotlight: “Good Grief” by Janice Shapiro
“Good Grief” is a chapter out of a graphic memoir that tells the story of a life through its author’s many crushes.
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Spotlight: “Short, Illustrated Love Stories” by Daniel Brauer
[A] series of short-short stories that could conceivably be considered to be about love, if by “love” you also mean lots of other things.
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Spotlight: “Distance” by AshleyRose Sullivan
“Distance” is part of a growing collection of graphic essays in which AshleyRose Sullivan tries to make sense of her oddball family history by looking at it through the lens of popular culture.
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Spotlight: VHS Starfield: Escape from the Dome
Artist, writer, and illustrator Pip Craighead shares an installment of VHS Starfield, a series of comics describing a fictional sci-fi film franchise from the 70s and 80s.
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Spotlight: “Sleep Walking” by Annalise Mabe
“Sleep Walking” highlights the grays, the in-betweens, revealing that even with good intentions things can go badly.
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Spotlight: “Mouth” by Stacy Elaine Dacheux
“Mouth” explores the closeness of bodies—how we open up, connect, and fail to convey.
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Spotlight: Jon Gant’s You & Me
Told in second-person narrative, You & Me is a nostalgic and humorous collection of observations, memories, and dreams.
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Spotlight: “A Farmer’s Hands” by Dale Vande Griend
I grew up on a farm in Iowa where my dad has worked every day of his life. He is the hardest working yet most loving man I have ever known.
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