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