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Precious Rubbish

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by Kevin Wolf Content Advisory: This book contains a fictional suicide, self-injury, alcohol use. The crisis Lifeline number in the U.S. and Canada is 988, in the U.K. it’s 999; and for elsewhere go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines. Content Advisory: This book includes domestic violence, rape, incest. National Domestic Violence Hotline in the United States is 800-799-7233; text 988; or use this weblink, https://www.thehotline.org/   Precious Rubbish is full of bad taste, out-of-place cartoony drawings seemingly from old comics, and a real-life horror story. This is a difficult review to write, because I’m not going to leave out (only) some horrors of… Read More

Tiny Dancer

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by Saily Marrero   Tiny Dancer authored by spouses Siena Cherson Siegel and illustrated by Mark Siegel follows Siena’s life as a dancer and the injury that lead to her decision to quit ballet. Siena chronicles her introduction to ballet and aspirations of joining the New York City Ballet in the first half of the book. For readers it’s a crash course into ballet culture as she explains the different class levels, roles within a show, and ballet programs available to ballerinas in New York. Illustrated beautifully in shades of purple, perhaps alluding to that “royal feeling”, Siegel adds stars… Read More

Raised by Ghosts

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by Thomas De Groff Briana Loewinsohn’s Raised by Ghosts examines an adolescent Briana—left largely neglected after her parents’ divorce—narrating her teenage years and early exposures to cartooning. This is a work that engages with objects beyond the panel to tell its story. Loewinsohn uses a brown paper lunch bag, a sticky note, a Polaroid photograph, and a slew of everyday objects to construct a setting in which to work through the trauma of her childhood. On its notebook-paper title page, Loewinsohn insists her work is a love letter rather than a love story. Loewinsohn endows her comic with a careful… Read More

The Heart That Fed – A father, a son, and the long shadow of war

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by Michelle Ollie   The Heart That Fed by Carl Sciaccitano is a graphic memoir structured around interwoven timelines between Carl Sciacchitano and his father, David Sciacchitano, from before the Vietnam War in 1965 to the present day. Carl has known his father to be explosive and wrought with anxiety, yet also a loving parent. Since Carl was born years after his father served in Vietnam, he relied heavily on his father’s stories, letters, and photographs from the past to create this book. He wonders if those four years served in Vietnam forever altered and shaped his father’s personality and… Read More