Sam Machado

Jun 23, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Bill Griffith |Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado

Bill Griffith. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4590-4One master of comics arts pays tribute to another in this inventive graphic biography of Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), creator of the long-running strip Nancy. Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) and his Zen surrealist nonchalance might seem an odd fit for the ostensibly square Bushmiller.

Jun 16, 2023 | psychologytoday.com | Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado

Globally, nonhuman animals (animals) are considered to be “things”—objects and property—in the eyes of legal systems with no fundamental rights. Clearly, animals who have complex minds, deep social, intellectual, and emotional lives, and who are able to make choices (have agency) and display self-recognition are not things. Yet, Happy, a clearly smart and sentient elephant, has been caged at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years and has remained largely isolated and lonely for more than a decade.

Jun 16, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart. Rose Metal, $24.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-941628-29-4Poet and cartoonist Ervick (The Keeper) and Sequential Artist’s Workshop school founder and cartoonist Hart (Rosalie Lightning) host a dazzling showcase of short academic essays designed to get artists and educators jazzed about the “hybrid form” of comics.

Jun 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Navied Mahdavian. Princeton Architectural, $25.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-79722-367-4New Yorker cartoonist Mahdavian debuts with a charming, meditative graphic memoir that recounts three years he lived in the rural Midwest.

May 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Léonie Bischoff |Sam Machado |Cynthia Sousa Machado |Steven M. Wise

Ben Nadler. Chronicle, $24.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-797-20524-3This appetizing graphic guide from Nadler (Heretics!) lays out a humorous and informative history of the Jewish deli in North America. With sections that include meat, fish, bagels, schmear, and dessert, the primer is populated by talking sandwiches and humans drawn digitally with triangular noses, boneless arms, and a variety of historical dress.