I read this for one of my summer classes. We had to read and annotate 10 comics/graphic novels. Here's the annotation I wrote for that class: Out on the Wire is about the making of narrative nonfiction radio shows. It outlines the work that goes into creating and producing a radio show from story ...
The first part of a new series in which a girl abandons her boring life as a moisture farmer on Mars in favor of accepting an internship in a rollerderby team. Not surprisingly, she has always dreamed of a life as a pro-sporter and can't wait to take the opportunity. While it looks like it is going ...
Jessica Abel's graphic novel about narrative storytelling on the radio is awesome, informative, exciting, a narrative storytelling experience in comic rather than audio form. Abel's wonderful illustrations brought life to the story, even in the blank spaces she left. As she explored the 'secret...
Back in 1999, cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel wrote a slim but very interesting graphic novel-like book--maybe you’d call it a nonfiction comic book--about how the radio show This American Life creates its often irresistible stories, stories that lead to “driveway moments” where you’ve arrived h...
I liked the storyline but was bothered by the use of gay and Hispanic slurs. I think my favorite character, actually, was Merle the biker vampire. I just liked his straightforward, no BS personality, wished he had had a bigger role in the story. A solid 3 star fun read with some great comedic moment...
Someday I’ll learn to stop looking at The Best American Comics series. As someone who loves comics but has exhausted her patience for violence against women as shorthand for meaningful commentary the series often exhausts me. Beginning with an excerpt from what I would argue was Alison Bechdel’s w...
Kinda like an Archie type comic with vampires... It was a little too dramatic for me, with no comedy or action.. Just a love story about a miserable vampire that likes a human girl, but can't seem to get all his other vampire acquaintances to give him a hand.
Most "vampire" stories in popular culture romanticize the "undead" experience, but what if it really, um, sucks? Dave Miller never wanted to be a vampire, yet creepy Radu, a genuine old-country vamp from Romania, changed him over only so that he'd have a night manager for his all-hours convenience s...
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