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Recreating Artemisia Gentileschi’s Life in Graphic Form

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty September 11, 2019September 12, 2019

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi weaves together known facts of Gentileschi’s life with the politics of art patronage.

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A Graphic Novel Gruesomely Satirizes Gentrification in Chicago

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel June 26, 2019June 25, 2019

Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore’s graphic novel BTTM FDRS blends discussions around race relations, cultural appropriation, and urban injustice with body horror and an eerie plot.

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A Graphic Artist Observes How Germany Is Not as Safe as It Promised to Be for Refugees

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 6, 2018November 5, 2018

Ali Fitzgerald, an American expat in Berlin, began running art workshops for refugees in 2015. Her book Drawn to Berlin looks at their current difficulties as they seek and struggle for safety.

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Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles

by Dominic Umile July 23, 2018July 20, 2018

Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the ’60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.

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A Graphic Novel in the Form of a Monster-Obsessed Child’s Notebook

by Jon Hogan May 3, 2017May 3, 2017

In My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Emil Ferris avoids the strictures of any one genre, following the meandering mind of a 10-year-old obsessed with movie monsters.

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Banned Horror Comics Rise from the Dead

by Dominic Umile March 22, 2017March 21, 2017

All of your pre-Code goods are here: blood and guns and tentacles and stranglings and hell demons.

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Chronicling the Days When Superheroes Knocked Out Nazis

by Jon Hogan March 17, 2017March 17, 2017

The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.

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A Comic Book Character Seeks Sexual Empowerment in Postwar Italy

by Lucia De Stefani June 8, 2016June 7, 2016

We’ve entered Valentina’s life so many times.

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Drawing the Dark Journeys of Drifters

by Dominic Umile October 28, 2014October 28, 2014

For a digest of comics stories and intricate, free-standing illustrative work called The Lonesome Go, St. Louis artist and writer Tim Lane profiles familiar, typically unshaven folk: bar flies, train-hopping drifters, biker types.

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Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists in the History of Comics

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 13, 2014March 10, 2023

Women have been involved in cartoons and comics from their beginning, although much of their work has languished in the greater story of graphic narratives. And it’s not for the reasons you might think.

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