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Interviews, reviews, and insights on comics and graphic novels. Author of The English GI.
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Teresa Robertson’s Memoir Twins: Family, Loss and Britishness (opens the original)
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GraphicMEMOIRBlog | Creator Conversation #102While attending the First Graphic Novel Awards at the Waterstones bookshop in Piccadilly, London, in January, I saw a book displayed on the tables called Twins that immediately piqued my interest, given that I am a father to twin girls. Written and illustrated by Teresa Robertson, I reached out to her via her website to find out more and was subsequently invited round for coffee to discuss it further at her studio inside her Georgian townhouse in leaf
Dr. Grace Farris: Hospitalist, Cartoonist, Memoirist (opens the original)
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GraphicMEMOIRBlog | Creator Conversation #101They say being a cartoonist is one of the most time-consuming professions. I was fascinated to catch up with Dr. Grace Farris, who combines her work as a practicing hospitalist in Austin, Texas, with a parallel career as a published author and illustrator of two graphic memoirs—one about motherhood (Mom Milestones, Workman, 2022) and one about her medical training
Sammy Harkham: Unfiltered in LA (opens the original)
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Blood of the Virgin is one of the best graphic novels I have read (see my review), so when the opportunity arose to meet its creator, Sammy Harkham, I took advantage of a vacation in San Diego and drove 100 miles north to Los Feliz, a hip neighbourhood in Los Angeles near Griffith Observatory. We met at Little Dom’s, a local favourite. Given how deeply his book is rooted in the history and geography
Noah Van Sciver’s 20-Year Journey in Comics (opens the original)
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GraphicMEMOIRBlog | Creator Conversation #99Over a career spanning more than two decades, Noah Van Sciver has moved between autobiography, fiction and historical biography, producing graphic novels about people including Abraham Lincoln and Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, alongside fictional works including Saint Cole and Fante Bukowski. His latest book, The Mess</sp
LA Exhibition: Kurtzman to Love & Rockets (opens the original)
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I have just returned from my annual trip to California and, for the second year running, was treated to another landmark comics exhibition in Los Angeles. The Skirball Cultural Center, a Jewish cultural institution situated just up the road from the Getty Museum, presented Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity last year. This year, it has gone much wider with Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution</
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