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Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
Seeing Illness: Medical Memoirs by Graphic Novelists
By Freddie Moore
October 23, 2014

Harvey Pekar’s Our Cancer Year, David Small’s Stitches, Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait — how do graphic novels plumb sickness so deeply?

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1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
1986: The Year Comic Books Became Literature
By Kevin Cortez
September 23, 2014

Released the same year, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore’s Watchmen transformed comic books into graphic novels.

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How Madonna's Sex Transformed the Coffee Table Book
How Madonna's Sex Transformed the Coffee Table Book
By Genna Rivieccio
August 15, 2014

The singer’s 1992 photo-book took the genre from nature documentary to pop controversy.

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Graphic Novels are Ridiculous — and That's OK
Graphic Novels are Ridiculous — and That's OK
By Stefan A. Slater
July 15, 2014

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan, Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Fables by Bill Willingham prove it’s a serious thing, being ridiculous.

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Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
By David Forbes
May 23, 2014

Installing magnets, microchips and sensors in their own bodies — this is how cyberpunk biohackers went from fiction to reality.

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Free Comic Book Day: What to Snag According to Comic Book Store Owners
Free Comic Book Day: What to Snag According to Comic Book Store Owners
By Stefan A. Slater
May 01, 2014

Comic book store owners weigh in on the titles you should be angling for this Saturday for Free Comic Book Day.

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Strong Female Protagonists: Searching for Heroic Women at MoCCA Fest
Strong Female Protagonists: Searching for Heroic Women at MoCCA Fest
By Jacquelyn Gleisner
December 17, 2013

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual convention features about 400 participants but remarkably few leading women.

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The Illustrated Unknown: A Review of Kilian Eng's "Object 10"
The Illustrated Unknown: A Review of Kilian Eng's "Object 10"
By Haniya Rae
July 09, 2013

Unearthly worlds and elaborately rendered spaceships make up this quasi-narrative collection of drawings.

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Cartoons & Conflict: Exploring Israel & Palestine Through Graphic Novels
Cartoons & Conflict: Exploring Israel & Palestine Through Graphic Novels
By Sarah Bennett
July 03, 2013

Where traditional journalism often fails to connect, graphic novelists make sense of a region at war.

 

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland
Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

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The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft
The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

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The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still
The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.

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