by Matt Peters Content advisory: Strong language (including homophobic and racist slurs) and brief depictions of nudity, hate crimes, and police violence In Howard Cruse’s classic graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, a character’s journey to self-acceptance is one of constant barriers and unexpected turns. Set in the early 1960s in the American South, Stuck Rubber Baby is the story of Toland Polk, a young adult living at a pivotal time in his life—and a pivotal time in history. As a gay white man, he’s faced with finding his place in a homophobic culture—and his place within a multiracial… Read More
Facts o’ Life Funnies
by Matt Peters Content advisory: Strong language, nudity, and brief depictions of sexual activity, drug use, and interpersonal violence In the 1960s, an underground comics scene emerged in the United States and United Kingdom, giving rise to small-press and self-published comics that featured stories about free love, recreational drug use, subversive politics, and other themes that were normally considered off limits in mainstream comics. Underground comics were commonly sold in head shops, where their mature content seemed less conspicuous among drug paraphernalia and other countercultural lifestyle goods. While mainstream publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dell, and Charlton cooperated… Read More
The A Word – A Global History of the Abortion Struggle
awaiting review
Won’t Back Down – An Anthology of Pro-Choice Comics
awaiting review
My Body, Our Rights
awaiting review
Unterzakhn
awaiting review
Mine! A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All Benefitting Planned Parenthood
awaiting review
I Know You Rider – a memoir
awaiting review
My Mom Had an Abortion
Only a few months ago, this would have been a straightforward review, but because of the Dobbs decision I feel this review must go beyond the book. I recommend My Mom Had an Abortion as a personal story for middle and high school.
This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/14/18 – 9/21/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I am going back a couple of weeks to highlight a comic from The Nib that deserves far more attention: I Went to Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic by Arwen Donahue. I think the comic speaks for itself, so I won’t go on too much except to… Read More