A review blog of new comics and graphic novels by writer, professor, and comics scholar Jessica Baldanzi
It took Guy Delisle 15 years to complete Hostage. For two straight years of that 15, he drew a page a day of the story of Christophe André, a French citizen working for Doctors Without Borders. In 1997, André was kidnapped near Chechnya and held for ransom for three months. Continue reading “Hostage, by Guy Delisle: An Unexpected Exercise in Simplicity”
First review for my new site below! And as promised, I’m also beginning to upload my archives from the Elkhart Truth. I was planning on starting with my most recent, from February 2016, but today’s news about Charlottesville prompted me to start in the middle of 2015 with John Lewis’s March: Book Two. Check out the archives links to the right if you’re interested.
A Girl and Her Dog: Fetch, How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, a Graphic Pet Memoir by Nicole Georges
Welcome to Commons Comics’s official new home! Thanks for your patience while the blog gets settled and I get the hang of managing my own site. Please bookmark commonscomics.com as the site’s permanent home.
Goshen’s wonderful Better World Books has ordered three new releases for me. I’m not sure which one I’ll review first, so let me know if you have a preference. Here are the covers, and an author photo, too:
Nicole Georges and “Fetch”
