Calvin Reid

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s Spent: A Comic Novelis both a very funny fictionalized graphic memoir and a lively satirical critique of consumer capitalism and her own privileged role as a media celebrity within it.

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Damian Duffy and John Jennings’s timely adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents is a powerful graphic recreation of the science fiction visionary’s prescient dystopian masterwork. The book is a sequel to Butler’s Parable of the Sower, set during a time of violence and chaos across a war-ravaged United States under the rule of a fascist Christian nationalist president of the United States.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

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1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir is a scrupulously compiled record of her Jewish family’s experiences leading up to and during the Holocaust, as well as a powerful memorial to the suffering of its victims and survivors. In a combination of drawings, historical documents, and photos, Dranger tracks her family from village life in Poland and Russia to Sweden and Israel alongside a grim accounting of the advancing Nazi horrors of WWII.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s Aya: Face the Music is the latest volume in their popular graphic novel series about a savvy teenage African girl in 1980s urban Côte d’Ivoire and an endearing agglomeration of her family, friends, fellow students, and local officials.