Author of The English GI: A World War II Graphic Memoir. 🖊️✨ Aficionado of graphic novels, memoirs, & comics. 📚🎨 Exploring history through art and comics
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Fabulous review by @DavidMarkHerman of The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir in today's Jewish Chronicle. All the more poignant as my grandfather was a huge admirer and supporter of David's late father, the painter, Joseph Herman. @JewishChron. tinyurl.com/4cyf5u3a
I had 24 hours in NYC and went straight to Red Hook to interview @deanhaspiel & @DougLatino about REAL LIFE COMIX — Only in New York! 🏙️✨
52 stories, 69 contributors, and the ultimate love letter to the city.
Read the full interview on GraphicMEMOIRBlog 👇
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Brooklyn fine artist Joseph D’Esposito debuts with The Outsider (@fantagraphics )! 🎨
A graphic biography of comic pioneer Bernie Krigstein—D’Esposito’s former high school teacher and fellow fine painter.
Brooklyn fine artist Joseph D’Esposito debuts with The Outsider (@fantagraphics )! 🎨
A graphic biography of comic pioneer Bernie Krigstein—D’Esposito’s former high school teacher and fellow fine painter.
I spoke with Eliza Fricker @_MissingTheMark about her visceral drawing process, reframing neurodivergence, and her new graphic memoir Could Try Harder. @JKPAutism @littlebrown (link in comments)
This week on GraphicMEMOIRBlog, I’m interviewing Teresa Robertson on her new graphic memoir, TWINS (@Menschpublishi1 ) 🎨📖
Full disclosure: having helped edit & bring her original zines into this finished edition, it’s a book I’m deeply proud of.
How do you write a 300-page graphic memoir while working as a full-time hospitalist? 📱🩺
I talked with Dr. Grace Farris (@gracefarris) about her unique iPad workflow, editorial insights from W. W. Norton, and making comics on shift.
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NEW EVENT: October 7 in Graphic Novels
🗓️ Mon 13 Oct | 6:30pm | 💻 Online | Free
Cartoonist Asaf Hanuka @RealistComics and writer, actor Omri Rose and Jonathan Sandler @jsandler1978 discuss turning testimony into graphic narrative.
Register now: shorturl.at/MppyM
Super image and it was featured in Tom Levy's graphic memoir The Boomer Archaeologist: Graphic Memoir of Tribes, Identity and the Holy Land where hw jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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One of my favourite images of The Cauldron of the Middle East.
Two titans who came to trust each other.
32 years ago
Blood of the Virgin was a masterpiece, so when I was in San Diego I was happy to make the 100-mile drive north to Los Feliz, LA, to meet Sammy Harkham. We discussed his family roots in Budapest and Baghdad, what fiction is Read it here: jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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Murder School NEARLY makes The Observer’s Graphic Novel Of The Month. observer.co.uk/culture/books…
As a longtime fan of Noah Van Sciver (The Hypo, Saint Cole), I was so glad to interview him! @fantagraphics
We spoke about 20+ years of cartooning, pitching Fantagraphics, his new graphic novel The Mess, and balancing memoir, fiction, and biography.
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Just back from LA and Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution at the Skirball Cultural Center. From Superman and MAD to Crumb, Maus, Love and Rockets and the indie comics of the ’90s, it’s a fascinating history of America through comics. Read: jsandlergraphicmemoir.substa…
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How do you turn 27 years at Hallmark into award-winning graphic novels? 🎨
I spoke with Pedro MartĂn about leaving corporate design, drawing on index cards, making comic history with MexiKid, and what’s ahead in MexiKid Dreams.
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