Aaron Kashtan
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August 2008
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Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal
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2020
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3 editions
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Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future
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2018
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3 editions
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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade
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2021
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Studies in Comics and Cartoons
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"'White Like She' was one of the worst things Dark Horse ever published. Then it was one of the worst things Fantagraphics ever published. Now it's one of the worst books Image has ever published. That's really saying something, because Image used to "
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| This is a powerful and brutal depiction of the aging process, but I had trouble connecting with it emotionally. Farmer's characters tend to have unexpressive faces, and Farmer presents her story in a stark, objective way. As a result, I ended up feel ...more | |
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| This is New Weird fiction from before that term was invented. | |
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| I liked this book's prose style, and I liked the sections that were set in America. But this book's literary value is outweighed by its gross racism. Saul Bellow knew nothing about Africa. His depictions of Africa are based on books written by other ...more | |
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Love Italian Style: The Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriage:
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(This review is guided towards women in a relationship but I am fully aware that this also applies to MEN in the same circumstance. :) ) I am in Australia... so Melissa Gorga has about as much star power on me as a black hole. I am not reading this fr" Read more of this review » |
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| A beautiful and important book that's gotten almost no attention from American readers, even though trauma and memory are such important topics in comics studies. It's a shame that this book was only translated digitally, and that it was not publiciz ...more | |
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"Well, this was such a letdown.
At least now I know what to pick up when I want to reignite feelings of anger or frustration. This book started off so promisingly; I enjoyed almost everything about it until I reached the halfway point, after which my en" Read more of this review » |
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| I still have sixty pages to go, but I'm not going to change my opinion. This book has an aimless plot that goes nowhere, and it wastes time by narrating the same events from two perspectives. Bao is a well-developed character, but his chapters are ir ...more | |
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| I still have sixty pages to go, but I'm not going to change my opinion. This book has an aimless plot that goes nowhere, and it wastes time by narrating the same events from two perspectives. Bao is a well-developed character, but his chapters are ir ...more | |
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