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Just finished "Be That Way" by Hope Larson. An excellent semi-graphic-novel about highschool friendships & romances, written as a diary including many illustrations but also a lot of prose. Has a pretty open ending just like "Freshman Year" did, and it's interesting how they both hit a lot of the same themes, despite their differences. Despite being from a slightly younger age group, and having had a totally different highschool experience, a lot of the '90s elements resonated with me.
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Just finished "Freshman Year" by Sarah Mai. It's a pretty good autobiographical fiction graphic novel about the first year of college, and instead of trying to make things fit into a plot, it lets them float apart and remain unresolved, which is nice. Not so much explicit wisdom, but in offering a realistic picture of the personal struggles & emotional moments of the college transition, I feel like it's pretty valuable.
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O tema de #quartoon que mais me surpreendeu foram všrios:
A falas do #SurfistaPrateado em sua graphic Novel
As cenas do #Demolidor em A Queda de Murdock, com as cenas nas quais ele estš massacrado e …

Esto estš interesante. Dream Theater publicarš una novela gršfica inspirada en su mšs reciente disco «Parasomnia» que incluye 8 historias, una por cada canción.
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/dream-theater…

Just finished "Punk Rock Karaoke" by Bianca Xunise. It's a really cool graphic novel about a high school punk band's journey as they graduate and try to juggle shifting responsibilities. It's #OwnVoices with a Black queer protagonist and has a relentless optimism and no-nonsense vibe, plus great facts about racism in music history, and probably if you are into punk music, a cool discography woven throughout (I hasn't rally heard of any of the songs mentioned to set the mood, but then again I'm not exactly a punk aficionado).
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A year or so after I finished this book, I realized that the Jones character in 'Liar, Cheater, Sinner, Saint' was Kevin from the Navy Trent Series. And, of course, Kevin wouldn't star in his own book. He prefers to work in the background. Art in this reel is by @empyranni_illustrates, cover art for the book is by @gargoyle.pastures. https://www.

Für die Schnittmenge Alteisenfreaks mit Comic-Lesern: Es gibt da eine neue Graphic Novel über u. a. die Historie der Computerspiele. Das könnte für den einen oder anderen von euch interessant sein. Ich habe das Buch selbst noch nicht gelesen, mit Computerspielen habe ich's nicht so besonders. Wahrscheinlich kommt das Buch bei mir aber dennoch ins Alteisenregal:

Just finished "Leap" by Simina Popescu. A really wonderful queer teen graphic novel that weaves romantic and platonic relationships together into a beautiful and hopeful story. The way Popescu captures choreography on an illustrated page is kinda magical, and since the whole book is set in a ballet school, we get to see plenty of it.
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Ausstellungs-TiPP #Basel: Das #Cartoon Museum Basel zeigt die erste Retrospektive in Europa der amerikanischen Comic-Autorin Alison Bechdel und Graphic-Novel-Pionierin. Bis zum 26.10.2025. - Alison Bechdel. The Essential

Browned & tattered, I found my old, fave #scifi graphic novel from the 1970s.
Being one of my only #comics, I read this thing 10x over. Missing the last page, I actually have no idea how the last story ends. 🤷
I should see if it's on the Internet so I can find out what happens... 40…

Agentic Design Review System
Sayan Nag, K J Joseph, Koustava Goswami, Vlad I Morariu, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10745 https://arxi…

Agentic Design Review System
Evaluating graphic designs involves assessing it from multiple facets like alignment, composition, aesthetics and color choices. Evaluating designs in a holistic way involves aggregating feedback from individual expert reviewers. Towards this, we propose an Agentic Design Review System (AgenticDRS), where multiple agents collaboratively analyze a design, orchestrated by a meta-agent. A novel in-context exemplar selection approach based on graph matching and a unique prompt expansion method play…

Just finished "Ash's Cabin" by Jen Wang. It's a wonderful graphic novel, with so many lovely scenes of northern California, a gripping plot built on largely intrapersonal drama, and some cool points to make about nature and humans, even if I wish it had made them more forcefully or in a slightly different way. I also wish it had unpacked more of the interpersonal stuff, but I can see there wasn't room for that and it wasn't necessary for *this* story to work.
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I hired GargoylePastures €to do some graphic novel pages for this book. And the art was so lovely, I decided to use it for the cover. Also, it's pride month and ‪ GargoylePastures is a queer artist. Check out the pride collection: https://gargoylepastures.com/prideclothingstore

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Finished "Hungry Ghost" by Victoria Ying. A beautiful graphic novel dealing with disordered eating via an unintentionally abusive parent, plus loss of a parent. It's #OwnVoices and has a gentle ending. I enjoyed the body- and food-positive takeaways.
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Finished "Homebody" by Theo Parish last night. It's a lovely non-fiction graphic novel about Theo's journey of gender discovery as a trans nonbinary person. Has wonderfully comfy art, and it's still encouraging to see such a positive story of self-discovery. Was interesting to compare it to "Genderqueer" by Maia Kobabe: Maia's journey seems to have been a bit rougher (or they're just more comfortable sharing more of the rough parts), and Maia gets more into stuff about sex and genitals, which Theo either didn't deal with as much or avoids discussing.
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Just finished "Barda" by Ngozu Ukadi. I don't normally grab classic comics or their modern successors from the library, and this exception to that rule has reminded me why I prefer to stick with other stuff, especially indie graphic novels: the stories are just so blocky & uninspired. I don't say "childish" since there are plenty of great books in the kids graphic novel section that I've enjoyed. It's also true that *some* of the classic stuff is deeper than the rest. But the average "comic" is not going to be very high on my list of stuff I enjoy, and this, while passable, was no exception to that generalization.
Still might look for other stuff by this author, since I'm pretty sure a lot of the issues with mainline comics can be publisher-dictated.
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Just finished "Decelerate Blue" written by Adam Rapp and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro. It's a dystopian graphic novel that I found... not that great. Maybe the best thing about it was the world-building around the propaganda language everyone is forced to speak, but overall I found the plot construction and characters to be underwhelming.
Despite being a book about resistance to fascist oppression, it doesn't meaningfully engage with any major axes of oppression like patriarchy, racism, capitalism, or colonialism, and it doesn't offer an interesting lessons on how to conduct resistance or what long-term outcomes one might hope for.
First graphic novel I've checked out in a while that I didn't really like that much.
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Just finished "The Courageous Princess" by Rod Espinosa. It's... bad. I was really looking forward to it because I recently read "Castle Waiting" by Linda Medley, and it seemed from the cover like it might be from a similar epoch in comics and/or have similar vibes, but it's both a very bland story, and extremely into royalty apologetics, which is the opposite of Castle Waiting and which galls me immensely. It breaks exactly one genre convention (the princess gets fed up with waiting for a prince and rescues herself) but doesn't systematize that into even an ounce of feminism.
"Dealing With Dragon"s by Patricia Wrede is the actually amazing version of this story, although it's not a graphic novel.
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Just finished "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. It's a great graphic novel about period equity and teen activism, with a lot of depth through a variety of intertwined sub-plots.
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Just finished "Forest Hills Bootleg Society" by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux. It's a very interesting queer teen graphic novel that's got a complicated plot. It also does some excellent things with the comic medium that I haven't seen elsewhere, letting us get glimpses of the inner lives of dozens of background characters.
I'm definitely interested in reading more from these authors.
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Just finished "Donuts and Doom" by Balazs Lorinczi. A lovely queer romance graphic novel featuring a witch and a rock star.
I like the way the book builds their romance through different stages, even if the plot is fairly basic. The world building is also fun.
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