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We Read To Challenge Ourselves: An Interview With Mariko Tamaki
We Read To Challenge Ourselves: An Interview With Mariko Tamaki
We Read To Challenge Ourselves: An Interview With Mariko Tamaki
Writer and performance artist Mariko Tamaki is one of the breakout talents of her generation. She recently published the YA novel Saving Montgomery Sole through Roaring Brook Press, and her 2014 original graphic novel This One Summer, co-authored by her cousin Jillian Tamaki, made history last year as the first comics work to win both the prestigious Caldecott Honor for exceptional picture art and the Printz Honor for best Young Adult literature. The book also won an Eisner and an Ignatz! In recognition of her tremendous success, ComicsAlliance talked with Tamaki for a career-spanning interview about Saving Montgomery Sole, This One Summer, her performance art, and the importance of queer characters and stories in her work --- starting with a look back at Skim, the Tamakis' groundbreaking story of a Japanese-Canadian outsider at a Catholic girls' school.
Ross Campbell Talks Curvy Girls, Sexy Boys And Warrior Women [Sex]
Ross Campbell Talks Curvy Girls, Sexy Boys And Warrior Women [Sex]
Ross Campbell Talks Curvy Girls, Sexy Boys And Warrior Women [Sex]
When ComicsAlliance first decided to devote a February fortnight to highlighting great sexy comics and the great artists who produce them, Ross Campbell was the first creator I thought of. Not only has the cartoonist a master of the female form, he's also one of the few artists who celebrates that form in the myriad of ways it appears in reality, from the curvy girls of his Wet Moon graphic novel
MoCCA Wrap-Up: Minx, Underage Authors and Unprintable Sketches
MoCCA Wrap-Up: Minx, Underage Authors and Unprintable Sketches
MoCCA Wrap-Up: Minx, Underage Authors and Unprintable Sketches
Much as I enjoyed the MoCCA programming yesterday, I made a conscious decision not to spend as much time in panels today, so as to spend more time walking the floor and picking up cool looking books. I limited myself to just two panels --Shelly Bond's too-early-in-the-morning Minx panel and the Joe Matt spotlight which Clayton blogged earlier-- and spent the rest of the day soaking up (and picking