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INTERVIEW: Tracy White Illuminates the Saga of Asylum-Seeking Teens in Unaccompanied

June 21, 2023

In Unaccompanied: Brave Stories of Teenagers Seeking Asylum, cartoonist Tracy White presents stories of migrant teens reaching the United States without parents, and going through the legal process of pleading their asylum cases here. Varied and harrowing, these stories illuminate the terrible ...

Reviews, Television and Film

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – All You See is a Melancholic Meditation on Immigration in the Netherlands

May 16, 2023

[[Editors Note: This review is part of a series of reviews from the Hot Docs Festival that took place from April 27th to May 7th 2023 in Toronto, Canada.]] All You See asks the question what happens when a person is stared at but never actually seen? Director Niki Padidar attempts to answer ...

Comics, Reviews

REVIEW: The Night Eaters Book One Needs Another Helping

January 11, 2023

A new horror collaboration between Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night is a family horror story even before they introduce the demons. Set during the 2020 pandemic, the story explores the complexities of family dynamics with a nice helping of demonic energy.

Comics, Reviews

Retrograde Orbit: A Delightful Tale About the Meaning of Home

December 10, 2018

Retrograde Orbit Kristyna Baczynski (Writer and Artist) Avery Hill Publishing 22 September, 2018 A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. In a galaxy unlike our own, Flint dreams of Doma, the planet her family once called home before having to leave it ...

Comics, Essays, Opinion

The Shadow Hero’s Shadow is New Super-Man

January 28, 2018

Welcome to the non-negative Year of the Knockoff on Women Write about Comics! Long ago in the wilds of October 2016, I wrote a guest post for the American Studies blog that discussed how Gene Luen Yang’s 2014 graphic novel The Shadow Hero seems like a rhetorical successor to Superman, ...

immigrant story

INTERVIEW: Tracy White Illuminates the Saga of Asylum-Seeking Teens in Unaccompanied

REVIEW: Hot Docs 2023 – All You See is a Melancholic Meditation on Immigration in the Netherlands

REVIEW: The Night Eaters Book One Needs Another Helping

Retrograde Orbit: A Delightful Tale About the Meaning of Home

The Shadow Hero’s Shadow is New Super-Man

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