Rob reviews the first issue of Thom Ferrier’s insider comic on medicine, Fear of Failure.
Thom Ferrier is the nom de plume of a Welsh physician who is also a cartoonist. His Fear of Failure series (serialized online as
…Rob reviews the first issue of Thom Ferrier’s insider comic on medicine, Fear of Failure.
Thom Ferrier is the nom de plume of a Welsh physician who is also a cartoonist. His Fear of Failure series (serialized online as
…All images ©2010 Sarah Glidden and DC Comics
Sarah Glidden's How To Understand Israel In Sixty Days Or Less is an interesting companion piece to Joe Sacco's Footnotes In Gaza. Both authors are obsessed with telling the truth about the miserable Israel-Palestine conflict and doing so by unearthing the smallest details that can provide clues as to what's really happened/is happening. Sacco did it by focusing in on one particular historical event, both as an illustration of how this event is still relevant today, but also to show how the vagaries of memory and cultural narrative creation can distort truth into something more convenient. Both authors wanted to go directly to the source and talk to the people living there in order to give a voice to others, but more importantly, to gain a view of the area unfiltered by anyone's perceptions but their own. In Glidden's case, as a 26-year-old American who is Jewish, this came in a format that she immediately viewed with suspicion: a "birthright" tour.Rob reviews two minis from first-time cartoonist Gabrielle Nowicki, Worng and The Curse Of The Parsimonious Great Aunt.
Gabrielle Nowicki is a fine artist who has just begun experimenting with cartooning. Her first two efforts, The Curse Of The Parsimonious
…Rob reviews the third and final issue of Robin Enrico’s minicomics series, Life of Vice.
The first two issues of Robin Enrico’s Life Of Vice centered on its title character (sex columnist/bass player Becky Vice) as a provocateur, performer and
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