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Graphic Novel
Graphic Memoir—Powerful Stories through Illustration
by, Audrey Arnold
October 6, 2021

With a beautiful blend of art and prose, graphic novels are one of the most accessible mediums out there. Even if you’re not a huge reader, a graphic novel is easy to pick up and digest. More than just superhero comics and manga, graphic novels contain stories from many different genres—mystery/thriller, romance, sci-fi/fantasy, and so much more. While comics and graphic novels are certainly not… [Read More]

Filed Under: Alison Bechdel, Art Spiegelman, Fun Home, Game of Thrones, George Takei, graphic memoir, Graphic Novel, Guts, Hey Kiddo, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Kindred, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Octavia Butler, Omar Mohamed, Persepolis, Raina Telgemeier, Sisters, Smile, The Best We Could Do, They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui, Victoria Jamieson, When Stars are Scattered
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by, Sharon K. Yntema
February 14, 2017

I feel anger when I look at the cover of the new graphic novel adaption of Kindred, originally written by Octavia Butler in 1979. The cover shows two wrists bound, and the colors are red, beige, brown and black. The uplifted arms are brown, the handcuffs are black, and the hand grasping one wrist is beige. The title, Kindred, in red burns upwards from the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Graphic Novel, Kindred, Octavia Butler
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The Photographer
by, Danielle Sherwood
September 14, 2011

The mission opens with a good-bye and closes with a hello. The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders (First Second, 2009) opens with our protagonist leaving Paris to do a photo-reportage mission of a MSF (Médicins San Frontières, or Doctors without Borders) caravan that’s going into northeastern Afghanistan, near the city of Feyzabad. Starting with them in Peshawar, Pakistan he will cross fifteen… [Read More]

Filed Under: 9/11, Afghanistan, armed resistance, Cold War, collaboration, Cross-genre, Doctors without Borders, education, Graphic Novel, graphica, history lesson, human endurance, medical mission, medium and genre, Nonfiction, Pakistan, photojournalism, politics
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