Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chaste’s I Must Be Dreaming is an uproarious, touching and zany ride.
By Roz Chast
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chaste’s I Must Be Dreaming is an uproarious, touching and zany ride.
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chaste’s I Must Be Dreaming is an uproarious, touching and zany ride.
Darrin Bell’s striking debut graphic memoir utilizes wit and emotional openness to chronicle the ways in which racism has shaped his life, from a police officer terrorizing a young Bell over a green water gun to protests in 2020 over the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Both poetic and personal, This Country meditates beautifully on what it means to create a home in the pockets of America where not everybody is wanted, due to their race or other aspects of identity.
The High Desert reclaims punk on behalf of Blackness and does so with electric style.
Kate Beaton’s graphic memoir is a powerful account of the ongoing harm of patriarchal violence, and an equally powerful testament to what is possible when we pay attention, seek out each other’s humanity and honor the hard truths alongside the beautiful.
Alison Bechdel’s unique combination of personal narrative, the search for higher meaning and nonstop comic ingenuity will leave you pumped up and smiling.
There is a DIY ethos is present in these pages, reminding us that our most personal stories are often best told in the simplest and most direct way.
Mike Hawthorne turns the full force of his talents on his own struggle to understand where he comes from and how he grew into the man and artist he is now.
Tyler Feder walks us through her grief journey in hilarious, moving detail, and the illustrations enable us to experience her pain even more deeply.
Cartoons provide the perfect forum for sharing these intensely intimate, painful stories.
In Erin Williams’ graphic memoir, Commute, she asks hard questions about shame, compliance and desire, both in her own life and in the larger culture.
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