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THE OLLIE COMICS – DIARY OF A FIRST-TIME DAD

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by Felix Cheong It’s a truth universally acknowledged that when the stork arrives, it never comes with an instruction booklet. Yes, there are self-help books, the doomscroll of YouTube videos, and hand-me-down war stories—unsolicited, of course—from relatives and friends. But nothing quite prepares you for that cute, squalling Mini-me that is now your responsibility, your center of gravity, your life. And naturally, you want to document every fleeting thing before it starts slip-slidin’ away. Looking at my stash of sepia-bitten photos of my son from thirty years ago, I can certainly identify with the sentiment. That impulse gave rise to… Read More

Medical Mentions Book Reviews XIX – Comic Strip Edition #3

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Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More

Wish We Weren’t Here – Postcards from the Apocalypse

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by Kevin Wolf Peter Kuper has produced a phenomenal variety of graphic works. He’s been illustrating Spy Vs. Spy in Mad magazine since 1997; he created the comic strip Eye of the Beholder (Visual Puzzle collections published in 1996 and 2000); he co-founded the World War 3 Illustrated; he’s created many graphic novels (including The System (1997), Theo and the Blue Note (2006), New York New York (1988), Speechless (2001), Sticks & Stones (2004)) and some classic adaptations (Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (2003) and Kafkaesque Fourteen Stories (2018), Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1991), Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (2020)); written… Read More

Medical Mentions Book Reviews XIII – Comic Strips Edition #2 – Big Apple Almanac

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Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More