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Toussaint Louverture

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by Kevin Wolf In 1936 a play opened in London and according to the back cover “for the first time, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright.” This was C.L.R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James (“Trinidadian historian, journalist, and revolutionary) work portraying the revolt of enslaved people. Paul Robeson played Toussaint Louverture. Toussaint had helped lead the revolt against slavery in San Domingo (taking back its pre-colonial name of Haiti). James is quoted on the inside cover “They, the Negro slaves, are the most important characters in the play. Toussaint did not make the… Read More

Illness, Disease, and Death in the Graphic Novels of Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective Review Essay

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By J.T.H. Connor, Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada Titles: Father Christmas Fungus the Bogeyman Gentleman Jim When the Wind Blows Unlucky Wally Unlucky Wally Twenty Years On Ethel & Ernest: A True Story With the death of Raymond Redvers Briggs in 2022, Britain along with the graphics community at large, lost a talented and beloved, if not a bit grumpy, storyteller, artist, and illustrator. Briggs (1934-2022) trained in London first at the Wimbledon College of Art and then at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art. Initially, he  worked as a freelance illustrator for children’s books, which earned him… Read More

Medical Mentions Book Reviews III

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Where to Buy: https://bookshop.org/shop/graphicmedicine   Book Review by Kevin Wolf   Medical Mentions is 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… Read More

Survive Manhwa Anatomy Series

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review by Kevin Wolf Survive! Inside the Human Body Volumes 1: The Digestive System (ISBN 978-1593274719), 2: The Circulatory System (ISBN 978-1593274726), and 3: The Nervous System (ISBN (978-1593274733) written by Gomdori Co. (Seok-Young Song in actuality) and illustrated by Hyun-Dong Han and published by No Starch Press © 2013 English translation These books are translated from Korean and come from South Korea. The term for Korean comic books is Manhwa (pronounced man-wa). The characters show exaggerated emotions through facial and body expressions, sweat and salivating, and jumping around. Narration comes from a disembodied head of the character narrating. The… Read More