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Comics That Challenged Me in 2018: Part 3
Welcome back, dear reader! Hopefully you’ve had a good weekend and are ready to jump back into the Comics that Challenged Me in 2018 – if this is your first look at my annual year-end wrap up, please head back over to parts 1 and 2 to check the first 10 entries in the list.…
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Review: Mother’s Walk by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein’s Normel Person, which migrated to Popula after the closure of the Village Voice, has been a powerful reflection on the state of the world. I’ve been drawn to her work this year, and it was exciting to learn that she would be contributing to Youth in Decline’s Frontier series. Over the last few…
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Review: Frontier #11 – BDSM by Eleanor Davis I’ve reviewed a few other Frontier monographs from Youth in Decline, either in my Comics That Challenged Me series or in long-form, and I’ve liked or loved many of them. But none of those comics have caused me to have such a quick and visceral reaction as…
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Review: Frontier #9 by Becca Tobin I mid-October I wrote a micro-review (on Twitter, of course, because blogging is hard) of Becca Tobin’s comic published through the Youth in Decline monograph series Frontier. In a series of tweets I mentioned some stray observations I had made, including some of the thematic elements I found intriguing.…
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Review: Frontier #7 – SexCoven by Jillian Tamaki If I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – as far as indie comics goes, 2015 may very well be remembered as the year of Jillian Tamaki. With This One Summer receiving the Caldecott in February, Tamaki has had a great start to the year. And…
