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Review: In Evil Eyes Sea, Two Women Uncover a Mystery at the Heart of Turkish Culture: by Özge Samancı

Evil Eyes Sea is preoccupied with objects: how they become imbued with their owners’ lives and remain after those people are gone. In her autobiographically-inspired graphic novel, Özge Samancı skillfully […]

  • Devony Hof
  • May 4, 2024
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Live lit events

    Review: Quiet Obsession and Control—Tender by Beth Hetland

    There’s something wrong with Carolanne. Beth Hetland’s graphic novel Tender tells the story of a woman with #goals: Carolanne lives in a cozy apartment in Chicago, takes the train to […]

  • Allison Manley
  • March 11, 2024
    • Chicago history , Comics and Graphic Novels , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: “A Repugnant Purity”: Al Capone, by Pierre-Francois Radice and Swann Meralli

    Chicago is best known for its transplants. Our biggest celebrities come to a pocketful of names—most from elsewhere, but now synonymous with the Windy City. Much like Oprah, Michael, Ditka, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • February 13, 2024
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Lit

    Review: Girl’s Night on Earth: Girl in the World, by Caroline Cash

    Young adulthood is a creative propellant for comics. Halfway between childhood and middle age, it’s a period rich in discovery, risk, embarrassment, and bliss. All powered by infuriatingly perfect health, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 4, 2023
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Good and Bad Habits—Acid Nun, by Corinne Halbert

    We rarely see the bright side of horror. Mostly connected with darkness and gloom, the genre reluctantly explores color and light. Not always. In the hands of a few auteurs, […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • February 9, 2023
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Event , Food , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: Eating Cheap Without Eating Poorly, The Poorcraft Cookbook

    The Poorcraft Cookbook By Nero Villagallos O’Reilly Iron Circus Comics If there’s one thing old people know it’s that young people are dumb. Selective amnesia makes each generation’s youth-haters forget […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • April 30, 2022
    • Children's books , Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Review: Re-Animaniac: Dr. Herbert West & Astounding Tales of Medical Malpractice

    Dr. Herbert West & Astounding Tales of Medical Malpractice By Bruce Brown and Thomas Boatwright Arcana Comics Howard Phillips Lovecraft was once a rare beast. Following a personal literary philosophy […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 27, 2020
    • Beyond , Event

    Comic-Con@Home Comes to Chicago (And Everywhere Else) Starting Today!

    One of summer’s most obvious absences are festivals, big and small. There’s no sprawling parks full of concert stages, no small towns bedecked with smiling strawberries leading you towards the […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • July 22, 2020
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Lit , Reviews

    Book Review: Banned Book Club—By Kim Hyun Sook, et alia

    Banned Book Club By Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyun-Ju, and Ryan Estrada Iron Circus Comics Alongside guns, flags, and cats, few things spark people’s passions more than books. And why […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 18, 2020
    • Comics and Graphic Novels , Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Uncategorized

    Book Review: Gritty, Oppressive, but Not Ugly Enough, “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, adapted and illustrated by Kristina Gehrmann, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger Ten Speed Press, 384 pages, $24.99 Kristina Gehrmann’s graphic novel version of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 7, 2020
    • Essays , Fiction , Lists , Lit

    An Ongoing Graveyard Shift: Selling Books in Chicago in a Plague Year

    Even in the best of times, bookstores have it rough. Just last year the American Booksellers Association reported American bookstore sales were down by 7.6 percent from 2018, sales sliding […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • March 26, 2020
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews

    Book Review: Minus, Lisa Naffziger’s YA Graphic Novel, Is Part of a New Generation of Comics Writers

    Minus By Lisa Naffziger Iron Circus Comics We’re living in a golden age of comics. Even better, we’re living in a golden age of comics for all ages. In my […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 12, 2019
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