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Learn to Be a Supportive Friend with The Breakaways!

April 3, 2019

The Breakaways Cathy G. Johnson (Writer and artist) and Kevin Czap (Colorist) First Second March 2019 Faith just started middle school, and on her very first day, she joined the soccer team—but not because she’s a confident go-getter. She maybe did it because Amanda, the pretty upperclassman ...

Comics, Essays

Cookies & Christ in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints

October 19, 2018

When I started writing about religion and literature for my dissertation, I never dreamed that I’d also get to write about comics. I loved comics and knew that they were finally being taken seriously at an academic level, but I still couldn’t connect them to religious studies. That is, until I ...

Comics

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

September 21, 2018

“Virtual intimacies were failures before the fact. If you had to get online to get it, it couldn’t be the real thing. But what is the real thing, what is real intimacy?” —Shaka McGlotten Before it spirals out into freaky chatroom horror, Carta Monir’s Secure Connect takes the familiar and ...

Comics, Indie & Small Press, Interviews

Celebrate Punk Music and Community with Liz Prince’s Be Your Own Backing Band

September 18, 2018

Be Your Own Backing Band Liz Prince, Hannah Templer (colorist) Silver Sprocket August 2018 Disclaimer: A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher. There’s an incredibly profound short comic in Liz Prince’s new, now fully-colored comics collection, Be Your Own Backing Band. When ...

Indie & Small Press, Reviews

Jessica Campbell’s XTC69 gives the Middle Finger to Misogyny and Transphobia

May 16, 2018

XTC69 Jessica campbell Koyama Press May 2018 Sometimes, when I feel buried under a flood of stress both in my personal life and from the general state of the world, I want to consume media that just makes me feel joy. I need to smile and laugh, to step out from under the weight of anxiety, ...

Comics

Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions is Girl Power Personified

January 15, 2018

Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions #2 “Face Off” Sarah Kuhn (Writer), Siobhan Keenan (Artist), Shawn Lee (Letters) “Stargirl” Sarah Winifred Searle (Writer and Artist), Shawn Lee (Letters) IDW December 27, 2017 The newest Jem and the Holograms series is an anthology of ...

Comics, Reviews

Star Wars Adventures’ Princess Leia: Enjoyable Throwback to the Classic Trilogy

January 11, 2018

Star Wars Adventures: Forces of Destiny – Princess Leia Elsa Charretier (Writer and Artist). Pierrick Colinet (Writer), Sarah Stern (Colourer), Tom B. Long (Letterer) IDW January 3, 2018 Since 2015, we have had the pleasure of receiving a new Star Wars film every year. This is exciting ...

Comics, Reviews

Quarry’s War and the Inescapable Trap of Convention

January 5, 2018

Quarry’s War #1 Max Allan Collins (Writer), Szymon Kudranski (Artist), Guy Major (Colorist), Comicraft (Letterer), Charles Ardai (Consulting Editor) Hard Case Crime / Titan Comics 29 November 2017 If you’re like me, you may not be overly familiar with Quarry, the series of novels that inspired ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Reviews

The Comic Book History of Comics #1: Fun, Detailed but Limited

January 4, 2018

The Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #1 Fred Van Lente (Writer and Letters), Ryan Dunlavey (Artist), Adam Guzowski (Colours) IDW December 20, 2017 We all know the term “graphic novel.” Most of us have graphic novels on our bookshelves. But where did this term originate? ...

Essays, Manga

Not a Hero’s Journey: Queer vs Normative Storytelling in Devilman

December 31, 2017

This article does not contain outright spoilers, so feel free to read it whether you’ve experienced any incarnation of Devilman or not. It does however imply the directions things take, so bear that in mind if you want to go into the series completely ‘blind’. My title means a few things, but ...

Gender

Learn to Be a Supportive Friend with The Breakaways!

Cookies & Christ in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints

You Yourself Are an Obsolete Computer: Reading Carta Monir

Celebrate Punk Music and Community with Liz Prince’s Be Your Own Backing Band

Jessica Campbell’s XTC69 gives the Middle Finger to Misogyny and Transphobia

Jem and the Holograms: Dimensions is Girl Power Personified

Star Wars Adventures’ Princess Leia: Enjoyable Throwback to the Classic Trilogy

Quarry’s War and the Inescapable Trap of Convention

The Comic Book History of Comics #1: Fun, Detailed but Limited

Not a Hero’s Journey: Queer vs Normative Storytelling in Devilman

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