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Papaya Salad

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by Felix Cheong   War memoirs usually announce their scars, complete with bandaged words that barely conceal old wounds. Elisa Macellari’s Papaya Salad does something quieter, and perhaps more effectively. Her debut graphic biography retells the picaresque life of Sompong, her Thai great-uncle. When the young Macellari meets him at a family gathering, he regales her with his rags-to-rattled story—one so dramatic that it could only be true. Born to a humble family, Sompong applies for and lands a Thai military scholarship. But before he can be sent abroad to a military academy in Berlin, World War II breaks out,… Read More

The Joy of Snacking: A Graphic Memoir about Food, Love & Family

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by Annemarie Jutel   I bought The Joy of Snacking on a whim.  Without really checking out the story, I thumbed through it and liked the pictures.  Since I live so far away from the bookstore I thought I should snap it up while I was in town.  I haven’t regretted a thing.  The Joy of Snacking gave me hours of…yes, joy…as I followed artist, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell in her conversation about her relationship to family and food. As a little girl, Hillary wouldn’t eat the same things as everyone else.  She was “picky.”  So picky, or at least so… Read More

The House That Groaned

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Awaiting GM review Karrie’s talk at Comics and Medicine: Visualising the Stigma of Illness Amazon blurb: “141 Rottin Road ‘A cosy, one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a charming Victorian conversion. Newly decorated and with a separate kitchen and reception room. Located just a bus ride away from a wide range of shops, restaurants and bars.’ Welcome to The House that Groaned and the six lonely inhabitants of its separate flats, characters so at odds with themselves and their bodies that they could only have stepped out of the pages of a comic novel. There’s Barbara, our make-up artist heroine and… Read More