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  • “I think I’m fighting my natural tendency towards austerity” – An Interview with Sophie Goldstein

    Sophie Goldstein is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Sophie’s most recent graphic novel The Oven was published by AdHouse Books, and was met with critical acclaim. You can see my review of The Oven here. House of Women is Goldstein’s ongoing comics project, and the second volume debuted at SPX in 2015.…

  • Review: The Oven by Sophie Goldstein  The Oven is a book I’ve written about briefly in the past – starting out as a serialized black and white comic in the Maple Key anthology, it was published earlier this year by AdHouse as a 2 tone black, white, and orange perfect bound book with orange gilding.…

  • Looking Forward: Sophie Goldstein’s The Oven Collected by AdHouse

    Sophie Goldstein’s work has been on and off my radar over the past year – I still haven’t grabbed a copy of her Ignatz-winning  House of Women, Part 1, but her comic The Good Wife caught my attention early last year with its over-saturated colors and its biting, brilliant uncomfortableness.  The Oven is a 6 chapter sci-fi…