Writer: Saif A. Ahmed Artist: Fabiana Mascolo Scout Comics, November 2021 A GLIMPSE OF A FAMILY’S LIFE emerging from the ruin of Iraq is a welcome addition to our stories. Many voices are beginning to appear lately from past and present war zones. YASMEEN appeared in my hand in six issues from 2020, and I … Read more
Created by Noémie Black Panel Press, December 2021 A ZEPHYROUS tilt downhill moves HANGING ON BY A THREAD along at a gentle pace as brightly colored scenes gleam past. The art in this 2022 biopic story by and of Noémie, coming of age in her twenties in Lebanon, looks like chalk drawn on snow, or … Read more
Writers : Carlos Trillo & Eduardo Maicas Artist : Jordi Bernet El Jueves (Spain), Página 12 (Argentina) 1992-2005 Prostitution is a concept we usually have quite a few problems with. On the one hand, it is a matter of using another person’s body. On the other we should be ready to state that, if both … Read more
Creator: Marjane Satrapi Jonathan Cape, 2008 If you’ve ever seen or heard of anything from Marjane Satrapi, it’s probably her groundbreaking work Persepolis which was a graphic novel and then a cartoon movie. Maybe it’s Chicken with Plums, which she adapted into a live action film, but if you’ve seen or heard of the latter, … Read more