Douglas Wolk

Feb 7, 2024 | tdn.com | Douglas Wolk

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Aug 28, 2023 | audible.com | Sean Howe |Douglas Wolk |Jesse Jarnow |Donovan Ramsey

The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts—battled both the US government and fellow radicals. At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forçade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country.

Aug 9, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Douglas Wolk

Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox are usually understood as American mythology, the heroes of tall tales spun by 19th-century lumberjacks, and they are—but their broader truth is more complicated than that. Bunyan didn’t become a household name until the Red River Lumber Company used those stories as a promotional tool, which is where Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend (TOON Books/Astra Books for Young Readers, Aug. 8) begins.

Jun 27, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Douglas Wolk

Deena Mohamed first attracted attention for “Qahera,” her webcomic about an Egyptian Muslim superheroine, in 2013, when she was 18 years old. She went on to write an undergraduate thesis on the history of Egyptian comics and then to become a major figure in that scene.