Tag: graphic novels
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Slice of Life #1
Slice of Life, by Kat Calamia, Phil Falco, and Valeria Peri, with letters by Tyler Esposito and Garth Mattams, started out life on Webtoon Canvas. (Tangentially, I’m always sort of startled by the high quality of some of what hangs out on Canvas. Definitely not all, obviously, but some of it is better than a […]
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Vampire Emmy and the Garbage Girl
Vampire Emmy and the Garbage Girl, by Pat Shand, Roberta Ingranata, Carola Borelli, and Jim Campbell, is short and funny and surprisingly tender. It is, as the first section is titled, a Meet Cute—with, of course, vampires and shapeshifters and small demons (and raccoons). While they’re all collected in one volume, the book is itself […]
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Vampire Detective in Space Issue 01
Vampire Detective in Space (Issue 01), written by Caleb Palmquist, drawn by Dave Swartz, and with letters by Dave Lentz, is the start of Something. Of what we’re not entirely sure, given its ending, but it’s definitely A Start. It’s also a lot of fun. Not a whole lot happens, in Issue 1. It’s short, […]
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the saddest angriest black girl in town: a graphic novel by Robyn Smith
I have a disclaimer here: I backed Robyn Smith‘s The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town when Black Josei Press ran its Kickstarter for the second printing, and also, I’m pretty out of it today because I’ve been having an asthma attack ever since the power went out at work a couple days ago. So […]
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The Invisible Kingdom: Walking the Path
G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward’s Invisible Kingdom: Walking the Path is a hell of a graphic novel, a wild space ride that interrogates our own society while shooting through the stratosphere. Walking the Path has a bit in common, at least for me, with Firefly, except without that weird Joss Whedon Feminism™. (And I […]
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Fangs
Sarah Andersen’s Fangs is a loosely-linked set of graphic vinegettes about an ancient vampire (she’s 300, but, as she says, her body’s 26!) and her new boyfriend, a werewolf. It started out life as a web series, and has now been published as a graphic novel. And I think it’s awesome. I’ve read Andersen’s work […]
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The Sealey Challenge: Black Girl Magic
Mahogany Browne’s words twine around Jess Snow’s art in Black Girl Magic, one single short poem that carries centuries of anguish and defiance and Black girl magic in its pages. It feels like it was written to be performed, and as it stands here, in concert with Snow’s art, it becomes almost a graphic novel, […]
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The Scar: Graphic Reportage from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Borders are arbitrary, violent things, things that bring out both the worst and the best of humanity. It’s a point driven home throughout Andrea Ferraris and Renato Chiocca’s The Scar: Graphic Reportage from the U.S.-Mexico Border, published originally in Italian and translated here into English by Jamie Richards. It is very short, very beautiful, and […]
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