While traveling through Finland, artist Ilan Manouach came up with an idea for a graphic novel, but unlike traditional graphic novels this one would be designed for blind readers.
Graphic Novels
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Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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A Hellish L Train Commute Inspires a Graphic Novel History of Williamsburg
Here’s one way to deal with a hellish subway commute: stare at your fellow passengers, draw their portraits, and turn them into characters in a graphic novel.
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A Post-Apocalyptic Graphic Novel by a “Disappeared” Argentinian Writer
It’s as if Oesterheld was telegraphing in The Eternaut the horrors that would befall him at the hands of his own repellent government.
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Publisher of Small-Format Comics Gives Emerging Authors a Big Break
At just 24 pages, each comic in British publisher Nobrow’s 17×23 series is designed to be an accessible gateway for readers to discover emerging authors, and for those authors to create what is often their first print publication.
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A Graphic Novel Portrait of Slavery in Brazil
The history of black slavery in Brazil has largely been told from the perspective of the colonizers, not the enslaved.
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The Economic Divide in Video Games
It’s all fun and games until the thinly veiled artifice of a virtual world becomes all too real.
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In the Shadow of Art Spiegelman
The problem of Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective is that its current showing, at the Jewish Museum in New York, is its only stop in the United States.
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Fatman, Cat-Man, and More Public Domain Comic Heroes You’ve Never Heard of, Man
The Golden and then Silver Age of comics that stretched from the 1930s to early 1950s left a lot of unloved heroes in its wake. Forgotten is Fatman the Human Flying Saucer — “the only comic hero with 3 identities” — who could transform his tubby self into a spaceship, and Black Fury the Wonder Horse, a sort of muscled up version of Black Beauty.
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Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists in the History of Comics
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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A Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Explores Gender and Identity
Flutter, Massachusetts-based writer Jennie Wood’s latest comic series, explores themes of gender and sexuality through science fiction.
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Inside David Wojnarowicz’s Comic Book
Many people know that David Wojnarowicz was an excellent artist, but fewer probably know that he was also an excellent writer. 7 Miles a Second, originally put out by DC Comics in 1996 and recently republished by Fantagraphics Books, is a memoir comprised of personal stories mixed with dreams, hallucinatory images, and social commentary.