Tag: SelfMade Hero
GRAPHIC BIO REVIEW: ARMED WITH MADNESS is a surreal journey through a brave artist’s...
This affectionately-crafted graphic biography of painter Leonora Carrington blends her signature surrealism with her life story.
Review: Missing the mark on magic realism, but doing well with realism itself
Looking at the effects of trauma as a long term property that you find visible bursts of in the short term, The Return Of The Honey Buzzard evokes Nabokov and magic realism in a...
Review: Barbara Yelin’s ‘Irmina’ shows how history destroys us in little ways
Quiet and brooding, while still warm and with a great delicacy, Barbara Yelin’s Irmina takes the author’s own discovery of her grandmother’s World War II era diaries and letters, and applies the resulting biography...
On the Scene: MoCCA Fest 2013, SelfMadeHero’s Englishmen in New York
It’s a truism that comics culture and the comics industry varies radically from country to country, but MoCCA Fest’s efforts to bring in an international perspective is laudable, to get past the stereotypes of...
