Tag: iasmin omar ata
SHUT IN THEATER: 9 comics for your first itch.io binge
These nine comics only scratch the surface of what's available.
EXCLUSIVE: Bluestockings Comics Festival returns in July — this time at Kickstarter HQ
The show is free to creators and attendees and workshop leaders will receive stipends.
Review: Mis(h)adra Explores the Toll of Depression and Epilepsy
Iasmin Omar Ata's Mis(h)adra received a lot of praise and deservedly so, read why that is.
GET A GRIP!: Keeping Equilibrium in Your Creative Practice
GET A GRIP! is a column dedicated to exploring all the health issues that keep us from making comics in all its forms. Sure, musculoskeletal or nerve injuries are the first things that come to...
Review: Mis(h)adra offers profound insight into living with epilepsy
If you’re anything like me, you might know little to nothing about epilepsy, let alone what a seizure is like as either the person having one or as an outsider. You can...
Review: The other realms of epilepsy revealed in ‘Mis(h)adra’
Mis(h)adra is a hard work to criticize, largely because it’s so personal and so raw in its portrayal of the intimate. Iasmin Omar Ata is an epileptic and Mis(h)adra is autobiographical in that respect....
SPX 2017: The year of getting woke
This was an SPX unlike any previous SPX, as the tumult of the outside world has reached even Camp Comics. But the welcoming spirit of unity and creativity was still there, and strang as ever.
Free Comics Bonus: PEN’s State of Emergency looks at the matetr of the day
PEN America has a section of comics called State of Emergency, and I'm sure you can guess what that refers to. Meg Lemke, Rob Kirby, and MariNaomi curated the section and it includes
Whitney Taylor:
Iasmin...
