Edited by MK Czerwiec, a comics creator and educator, and with contributions from educators, healthcare workers, researchers, and artists, including the likes of Lynda Barry, Ellen Forney, Joyce Farmer, Carol Tyler, and Mimi Pond, Menopause: A Comic Treatment is a poignant and much-needed anthology on a subject that is still largely stigmatized and absent from…
INTERVIEW: Jordan Hart Explores Invisible Diseases in Ripple Effects
Fan Base Press introduces us to the first of a five-part series exploring the life of a superhero with an invisible, chronic illness. Written by Jordan Hart, illustrated by Bruno Chiroleu, flatted by Shane Kadlecik, lettered by Oceano Ransford, and featuring cover art by Justin C. Harder, Ripple Effects is the story of George Gibson,…
REVIEW: Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility
This heart-wrenching comics-narrative illustrating one woman’s epic journey towards motherhood is, at turns, also funny and cute. Drawings have a way of taking the sweat out of tragedy, turning it into something more palatable, though still powerful. I drank in Catalogue Baby in a single gulp.
Comics Academe: 2020 in Review
To close out 2020, Comics Academe asked contributors to write about the conferences, articles, and books that had the biggest impact on them. They attended virtual conferences and comic cons and read, wrote, and were recognized for groundbreaking work in and around comics studies.
Stories from Comics Academe: Visualizing a Story of Cancer’s Culture
What Graphic Novels Tell Us About Cancer Care, Greedy Stories, and the Ethnographic Method On April 30, 2014, I attended a lecture at Soka University in California entitled “What Graphic Novels Tell Us About Cancer Care, Greedy Stories, and the Ethnographic Method” by Juliet McMullin, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Riverside. Among…
