The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories
Marguerite Dabaie’s The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories unfolds the serious and often stigmatic experience of being an Arab-American. This collection of short comics has been ten years in the making. Dabaie first self-published several of these stories because … Continue reading
NOW #3
The one thing Now is best at is showing exactly how much the comics canon has been blown open in the last ten years. Continue reading
Hasib & The Queen of Serpents
The result is something that reflects a stylized version of age of the stories without indulging in stereotype or essentialist fantasy. Continue reading
Soviet Daughter
The subject of Julia Alekseyeva’s biographical comic Soviet Daughter, her great-grandmother Lola, left her life savings to her great-granddaughter. However, Alekseyeva’s real inheritance was Lola’s memoir, which she instructed her family not to read until she died. Khinya “Lola” Ignatovskaya … Continue reading
Angloid
If Alex Graham’s Angloid is not even semi-autobiographical, I am probably being straight-up rude for assuming it is. The protagonist drinks too much, smells bad, and propositions much older men only to then face the further indignity of being laughed … Continue reading
Super Late Bloomer
The first of Kaye’s book-length publications, it is a bound collection of select strips from her acclaimed web comic Up and Out. Though the web comic began as a run-of-the-mill gag strip, Up and Out transformed alongside Kaye herself into an autobiographical comic documenting her personal life as a transgender woman. Continue reading
Mr. Wolf’s Class
This graphic novel for young readers details the adventures of the fourth grade teacher Mr. Wolf and his students on their first day at school. Continue reading
Be Prepared
It may be listed as being for Middle Grade and Young Teens, but Be Prepared will hit home more with any adult who ever felt out of place growing up, that is to say, most of us. Continue reading
