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Keiler Roberts Keiler Roberts sits in front of her laundry machine, crying. It’s not the first time she’s cried on the floor, and when her daughter finds her, she recognizes an emergency situation. “Oh no, Mommy! 9-1-1!” Xia shouts as she rushes to her mother’s lap, absorbing the tears with her blankie. This is one of the many illustrations of domestic melancholy and tenderness in Roberts’s
My Begging Chart, a new collection of autobiographical comics from Drawn & Quarterly. Roberts is blunt about the highs and lows of everyday life, imbuing moments of vulnerability with dry humor thanks to her sparse art style and understated storytelling.
Alison Bechdel on reading biographies and self-help books
By Amy Sutherland Globe Correspondent,Updated May 6, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
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Alison Bechdel is the creator of the comic strip âDykes to Watch Out For,â and her graphic memoir âFun Homeâ was a bestseller that was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical.Elena Seibert
In her new memoir, âThe Secret to Superhuman Strength,â writer and graphic artist Alison Bechdel delves into her long-time obsession with fitness crazes, an often-comic self-examination that leads from spin classes eventually, somehow, to Eastern philosophy. The MacArthur Fellow is the creator of the comic strip âDykes to Watch Out For,â and her graphic memoir âFun Homeâ was a bestseller that was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical. She lives in Vermont with her partner.
As a librarian, I am lucky to be surrounded by comics. I grew up reading
Archie and the weekend comics in the
Winnipeg Free Press, spending many afternoons drawing the characters and making paper dolls of them.
In my late teens, reading the work of creators such as Julie Doucet, Adrian Tomine, Geneviève Castrée, Lynda Barry, and Gabrielle Bell helped me through difficult times. Until then, I had no idea that comics could be so varied and speak so frankly about topics like depression, identity, and sexuality. Comics have a unique intimacy that connects readers through their layered and often visceral communication of experiences, narratives, and ideas.
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