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Enter Michael DeForge’s World, Where People and Places Alike Get Constant “Updates”
In the futuristic setting of the graphic novel Familiar Face, the alienation induced by rapid technological advancement is accelerated to a fantastical degree.
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An Afro-futuristic World Where the Kids Are Alright but Looking for More
In GLEEM, Freddy Carasco's latest graphic novel, the itchy energy of youth is ready to burst forth, right off the page.
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Best of 2019: Our Top 25 Books
Here are our favorite books of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
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Fighting for the Future in President Zuckerberg's Dystopian America
In her graphic novel The Hard Tomorrow, Eleanor Davis explores how different people react to living in a pressure cooker of rising fascism amidst dire inequality and a collapsing ecosystem.
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Recreating Artemisia Gentileschi's Life in Graphic Form
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 Considers How to Raise a Feminist
Even before her daughter was born, artist Tyler Cohen was determined to raise a feminist.
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An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.
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A Graphic Novel that Basks in the Aura of Film
Herman by Trade reads just like a storyboard for a film — perfectly fitting for a tale of a humble street cleaner caught up in the frustrating process of open auditions for a movie.
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A Graphic Novel Tells the Story of David Bowie, Orgies and All
With a nod to Heinz Edelmann and Milton Glaser, Néjib illustrates a couple of formative years in the life of David Bowie.
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Finding the Roots of Graphic Novels in the Ancient World
Recent research on the use of graphic narratives in the ancient world has revealed their value to everyday people in the ancient Mediterranean — similar to modern audiences’ appreciation for such work.
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A Graphic Memoir About Growing Up with Modernist Playgrounds
Julia Jacquette's Playground of My Mind is a graphic memoir of growing up with the modernist playgrounds of Manhattan, and how their concrete geometries influenced her later art.
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A Vietnamese Refugee Draws Her Family's Story
Thi Bui was three years old when her parents and siblings stowed away in a rickety fishing boat bound for coastal Malaysia in 1978.