Tag: autobiography
Review: Liana Finck’s ‘Passing For Human’ gets to the core of all of us
One of the things I like best about Liana Finck is her ability to not only be the only thing like her in comics but to communicate that fact clearly and with charm. Seldom...
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...
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...
Review: Evie Wyld’s transformative fear in Everything is Teeth
This mesmerizing and beautifully weird memoir has novelist Evie Wyld going over her childhood years through the lens of extreme, irrational fear, tracing its beginnings and following how it defined so much of her, only...
Review: Rebecca Roher’s tender family memories are a pleasing meditation on loss
For many people, the earliest experience of human loss that pierces their emotions and affects their everyday existence is the death of a grandparent, and that of a grandmother, I have found, anyway, seems...
Review: Julia Wertz’s thoughtful and healing style of self-deprecation
Julia Wertz’s Eisner-nominated Drinking At The Movies, originally from 2010 but here with a handsome reissue from Koyama Press, is renowned for its humorous self-deprecating pile-on. At its root is the suggestion that beating...
Review: Meags Fitzgerald continues her autobiographical innovations with Long Red Hair
In Meags Fitzgerald’s previous book, Photobooth: A Biography, which documented just about anything you ever wondered about photo booths, she went far beyond her central subject, wrapping in segments of autobiography, making it a...
Review: The hilarious honesty of Jane Mai’s See You Next Tuesday
Jane Mai isn’t merely self-deprecating. That phrase doesn’t capture her at all. Actually, I don’t know what to call it instead, but it comes out in the form of See You Next Tuesday, her comics...
Big Interview: L Nichols- ‘Autobiography is terrifying’
I first came across L Nichols work via her comic for Retrofit: Flocks. To date, Flocks is one of the most powerful works I've read, and one which, to be perfectly honest, I'd most likely...
Review: The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz: bio, booze and books
The Infinite Wait by Julia Wertz
Koyama Press
I have a complicated and knotty relationship with auto-bio comics, beset by apprehension and cynicism. There's no doubt the genre produces some interesting material- Art Spiegelman, Seth, Robert Crumb,...
