Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
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Faced with an overwhelming amount of information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, comics offer us a thoughtful way to delve into the roots and current events of the conflict.
Graphic novels pair text and images to explain complex topics – from thermodynamics to abstract math – without alienating STEM-averse students.
Coming of age stories in young adult and graphic novels can provide ways of thinking about a seemingly intractable conflict.
Comic book creators with a history of galvanising social action on America’s streets have created a graphic novel about the US Capitol attacks.
Creative literature has a unique role to play in fighting the climate crisis, as these three graphic novels prove.
Netflix’s Sandman is quite different from the comics and that opens up the story to a whole new fandom.
Gaiman’s dream goes by many names, each inspired by different ideas of what dreams and nightmares have been to people throughout history.
Much of his work was imbued with a sense of the end, so it is fitting to look back at three of his best works to mark the illustrator’s passing
Two radically inventive new works of Australian graphic nonfiction dig deep into 21st-century life. They balance critique with hopeful possibilities – of collective change and radical acceptance.
Strong queer representation in young adult comics can have a significant positive impact on the well-being of queer-identified or questioning youth.
Designed by scientists, a comic book empowers the reader to become a pioneer of cutting-edge, agro-ecological farming in developing countries.
The multigenerational memoir laid the groundwork for graphic memoirs to become an essential form for remembering the Holocaust and communicating its legacy of trans-generational trauma.
Comics about migrant experiences seek to expose personal perspectives about the global crisis of 80 million individuals and families forcibly displaced worldwide.
Science and comic books have been cross-pollinating each other for some time (think Spider-Man). But kids can learn a lot of valuable science information from comics books too.
2020 has been a tumultuous year. Here are some books your kids can lose themselves in this summer.
Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize didn’t shortlist a graphic novel, but are we surprised? The slow but increasing acceptance of graphic novels suggests the glacial pace at which literary canons grow.
Through his work, the Argentinian cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon, known to all as Quino, engaged in pointed social critique on a range of topics that are even more relevant today.
Scientists provide the credibility and accuracy, while the artists ensure this is communicated with creative flair and appealing designs.
Some of the most exciting fiction and memoir is being done in the form of graphic novels. Here are some of the very best.
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Reader in English, City St George's, University of London
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Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Comics and Architecture, University of Brighton
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer in Literature and Gender, University of Bristol
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Professor of Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Marian University
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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PhD Candidate & 2023-2024 Public Scholar, Concordia University
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Chercheuse, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Book Publishing and Digital Humanities, Portland State University
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Ph.D. Student in Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages, Michigan State University