A review blog of new comics and graphic novels by writer, professor, and comics scholar Jessica Baldanzi
This review first ran in the “Elkhart Truth” in April 2015. Thanks to Better World Books, 215 S. Main St. in Goshen, for providing me with books to review. You can find all of these books at the store. Nina Bunjevac’s “Fatherland” is about many things, some quite difficult, some—like the history of the former …
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Originally published on GoshenCommons.org March 17, 2014 Author photo by Dominika Leclawek, from npr.org. Last post I reviewed “The Great War,” by comics journalism pioneer Joe Sacco. Turns out that Sacco, most famous for “Palestine,” his first-person exploration of the history of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, interviewed this week’s author, Rutu Modan, back in 2008. …
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Originally published on GoshenCommons.org February 3, 2014 If you’re not familiar with Peter Bagge, he’s best known for comics about suburban youth with titles like “Hate,” “Apocalypse Nerd” and “Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me.” Here’s a self-portrait that captures his damp, bug-eyed style as well as his chronically ironic tone: Image from reason.com