R. Crumb

Oct 17, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Lila Ash |Jake Halpern |Michael Sloan |R. Crumb

An accessible, informative journey through complex issues during turbulent times. Immersion journalism in the form of a graphic narrative following a Syrian family on their immigration to America. Originally published as a 22-part series in the New York Times that garnered a Pulitzer for editorial cartooning, the story of the Aldabaan family—first in exile in Jordan and then in New Haven, Connecticut—holds together well as a full-length book.

Oct 14, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Lonnie Mann |Jake Halpern |Michael Sloan |R. Crumb

An accessible, informative journey through complex issues during turbulent times. Immersion journalism in the form of a graphic narrative following a Syrian family on their immigration to America. Originally published as a 22-part series in the New York Times that garnered a Pulitzer for editorial cartooning, the story of the Aldabaan family—first in exile in Jordan and then in New Haven, Connecticut—holds together well as a full-length book.

May 15, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | R. Crumb |Brian Fies

THE WORLD INSIDE YOUR HEAD by Eliot Borenstein ‧ A detailed, wonky examination of a significant period in the history of Marvel Comics. A generation of Marvel writers who explored themes of interiority and subjectivity in the 1970s bridged the gap between Spider-Man in the 1960s and the modern graphic novel. So argues Borenstein, whose comics coming-of-age occurred during this fertile era.