Tag: Autobiographical Comics
INDIE VIEW: ‘Babcia,’ ‘Red Ultramarine,’ and the stories we tell ourselves
John Seven reviews 'Babcia' and 'Red Ultramarine,'
Interview: D. Boyd talks ‘Chicken Rising,’ only childhood, and dealing with your stuff before...
John Seven talks D. Boyd, author of 'Chicken Rising'
Review: Unpacking your demons in ‘The Vagabond Valise’
You can go find all the horror comics currently being published and line them up with The Vagabond Valise and probably not find one that is anywhere equal in the level of disturbance lobbed...
Review: A life unfolds through cassette tapes in ‘All the Sad Songs’
Cassette tapes are one of those things. I don’t know if people who didn’t live decades of their life with cassette tapes as part of them can really gather what they mean to people...
Review: ‘Feast of Fields’ unleashes all the dimensions of emotion and memory at the...
Sean Karemaker created one of my favorite books of 2016, The Ghosts We Know, a dark autobiographical work that achieves a symbolic height as the psychological crashes into the recollections to create some otherworldly...
Review: Michael Kupperman’s haunting quest for ‘All The Answers’
Often in our history, but especially right now, popular culture is an obstructive thing, and one of the main things it keeps us from seeing is what happened before whatever is happening now. It’s...
Shannon Wheeler returns with MEMOIRS OF A VERY STABLE GENIUS
New Yorker cartoonist and multiple Eisner Award-winner Shannon Wheeler has a book of autobiography and humor coming out in July.
Review: Kristen Radtke’s autobiography captures the big picture in the small frame
I am often torn about autobiographical comics. Not whether they should exist or not — of course people should create the comics they are moved to create — and not about the level of...
A Year of Free Comics: Powdered Milk by Keiler Roberts, a painfully honest look...
Man oh man how have I not linked to this before? Keiler Roberts' Powdered Milk is an ongoing autobiographical comic about a woman, her husband, their daughter, Xia, and their dog, Crooky...but it's not...
Review: Two tiny books with big differences between them
Nicolas by Pascal Girard
This is a deceptively simple book that takes slices from the life of creator Pascal Girard’s life that all revolve around his younger brother, who died as a child. Girard’s cartooning takes...
Review: Kelly Froh & Dan Mazur’s two non-fiction delights
The Weekend Casserole Collection by Kelly Froh
Froh brings together a number of short pieces from various sources — anthologies she’s contributed to, some of her own minis, as well as some previously unseen work.
Covering...
