Panel Mania: ‘Spent: A Comic Novel’ by Alison Bechdel

The latest from one of America’s most beloved cartoonists is both a very funny fictionalized graphic memoir and a lively critique of consumer capitalism. A seven-page excerpt. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-28 04:00:00 UTC ]

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Panel Mania: ‘Spent: A Comic Novel’ by Alison Bechdel

The latest from one of America’s most beloved cartoonists is both a very funny fictionalized graphic memoir and a lively critique of consumer capitalism. A seven-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Best New Book Releases Out May 20, 2025

This week's featured new releases include a new graphic novel from Alison Bechdel, a memoir on grief, an exploration of American patriarchy, a medieval fever dream, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Percival Everett, Tessa Hulls Among 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Everett’s novel ‘James’ and Hulls’s graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’ were among the seven books to receive this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced May 5. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-05-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
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24 New Books to Read in May: Stephen King, Ocean Vuong, Alison Bechdel and more

Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Panel Mania: ‘Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance’ by Denali Sai Nalamalapu

This graphic memoir is a moving account and tribute to the local West Virginia activists fighting to protect their land from the ravages of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Panel Mania: ‘Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir’ by Joanna Rubin Dranger

This powerful and scrupulously compiled record tells the story of Dranger’s family’s experiences leading up to and during the Holocaust—and serves as a powerful memorial to the suffering of its victims and survivors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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More Than a Muse: Kay Sohini on Discovering Literary New York

The following is from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini. _____________________________________ __________________________________ Excerpted from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini. Copyright © 2025. Published by Ten Speed Press, an... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Panel Mania: ‘Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It’ by Tara Booth

Tara Booth’s new graphic memoir is an eccentric and colorful psychological self-portrait with dazzling visual impact and an engaging and idiosyncratic sense of humor. A ten-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Panel Mania: ‘Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost’ by Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan's debut graphic memoir ‘Babe in the Woods: Or the Art of Getting Lost,’ transforms a weekend hike in the woods into an evocative survey of her life and career and into an all-too-real survival story. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Lovely, Dark and Deep: PW Talks with Julia Heffernan

Painter Julie Heffernan’s lush, surrealism-infused graphic memoir debut, Babe in the Woods: The Art of Getting Lost (Algonquin, Sept.), follows her winding path through fear and memory after taking the wrong turn on a hike with her infant son. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Panel Mania: 'Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood' by Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol

'Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood' by Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol dissects the history of Hollywood filmmaking and its role in shaping American racial stereotypes. A seven-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Panel Mania: 'Maple Terrace' by Noah Van Sciver

Van Sciver’s new graphic memoir returns to the chaotic household of his 2018 autobiography 'One Dirty Tree,' adding a broadly humorous perspective on growing up in a large, impoverished Mormon family living in a dilapidated, roach-infested house in 1990s New Jersey. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

The following is from Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice by Eddie Ahn. _______________________________________________ Excerpted from Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice, by Eddie Ahn;... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Panel Mania: 'Advocate' by Eddie Ahn

Eddie Ahn’s 'Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice' is a thoughtful addition to the literature of immigration. A seven-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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“My Mother is Chinese and My Father is English…” On Defying Racial and Cultural Classification in Northern California

The following is from Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls. __________________________________ Excerpted from Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls. Published by MCD/FSG, an imprint of Macmillan. Copyright © 2024 by Tessa Hulls. All rights reserved. Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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How Ai Weiwei Marries Advocacy and Art at Home and Abroad

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Panel Mania: Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriquez

This graphic memoir is a classic immigrant tale, illuminating the political repression characterizing the society author Edel Rodriquez escaped in Cuba—and rebuking its rising right-wing political presence. An 11-page excerpt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Edel Rodriguez Isn’t Afraid to Live With the Consequences

The political artist drew some of the most provocative images of the Trump presidency. “Worm,” his new graphic memoir of emigrating from Cuba to the U.S., skewers the powerful once more. Continue reading at The New York Times

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A Black Father Illustrated the Importance of “The Talk” in His Graphic Memoir

Darrin Bell didn’t set out to write his much anticipated graphic memoir, The Talk. He’d initially sold another project delving into the lives of three generations of men in his family, all descendants of an enslaved man named Addison Bell, in a two book deal to Henry Holt and Co. But as he was... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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