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Everything in Color
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Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) – Comics on Pregnancy and Parenthood
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How Are You Feeling? A Comics Anthology
BY ISHANI ANWESHA JOSHI How are you Feeling? A Comic Anthology (2025) by Andeasyand (author and illustrator), Vinita Ramani (writer), Griselda Gabriele (artist), Wayne Rée (writer), and Nurjannah Suhaimi (artist) is a collection of the first three issues of Singapore-based independent comic publisher Difference Engine’s DE Shorts imprint. Each issue is published as a single chapter with individual prefaces and author biographies. While chapters two and three focus on a single narrative, chapter one contains multiple short narratives centered on the theme discussed. Throughout the book, white, blue, and red are predominantly used, while other formal elements, such as panel… Read More
Acknowledge It – A Collection of Works about Bumps on the Road to Motherhood
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Radium Girls
By Karol Kovalovich Weaver Cy.’s Radium Girls tells the story of a group of twentieth-century American working-class women who suffered from and died as a result of radium poisoning. The women worked in a watch factory painting the numbers on watch faces. Unaware of the dangers of the radioactive paint, the women prepped their brushes with their tongues. In addition, they used the paint as nail polish, applied it as makeup, and decorated their dresses with it. Ultimately, they developed radium poisoning, experiencing tooth loss, miscarriages, pain, the inability to walk, and death. Facing physical, emotional, and economic hardships, the… Read More
Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility
Book Review by Alice Jaggers Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of Infertility is the journey of Myriam Steinberg trying to get pregnant as a single woman, written by her and with art by Christache. She explores her conception options and explains each to the reader. As she goes through various choices, she faces miscarriage, trips to the hospital, and multiple surgeries. She additionally explores the stigma around abortion. Throughout the memoir, Myriam focuses on her emotions and her physical health. It is clear that she has an extensive support system carrying her through her infertility experiences. Myriam engages the reader and… Read More
Bearing Stories
The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story One Good Egg: An Illustrated Memoir Baby: A Soppy Story Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos New Life Waves The Facts of Life Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression Books reviewed by Kevin Wolf Every pregnancy is typical and atypical; that is, they are all unique; just like the stories reviewed here. Some are more medically informative than others. They each cover different topics but don’t view them as being the end all for any of those pregnancy-types. The stories provide two forms: words and pictures both of which… Read More
Pregnancy and Miscarriage in A Comic Diary
Met cartoonist Anna Brewer in Glasgow, at the 2013 IBDS Conference. She shared that her online comic journal has included work on learning she was pregnant and the miscarriage that followed. You can read the first portion, about the pregnancy here. And the portion about the miscarriage here. The full blog can be accessed here. Thanks for sharing your work, Anna!