Carol Tyler
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During collisions between life and death, estrangement and loss, Carol Tyler turned to her pen to face facts and extract meaning from the oddly sacred experience. Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too-real, she explored previously uncharted emotional territory for herself and others, in a work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich. An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler's comics-making career,...
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Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Social stigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes to menopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat it alone. Featuring works by comics luminaries such as Lynda Barry, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, and Carol Tyler, Menopause is the perfect antidote to the simplistic, cheap-joke approach that treats menopause as a cultural taboo. This anthology challenges stereotypes with perspectives...
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During collisions between life and death, estrangement and loss, Carol Tyler turned to her pen to face facts and extract meaning from the oddly sacred experience. Exploring realms metaphorical, half-imagined, and all-too-real, she explored previously uncharted emotional territory for herself and others, in a work that is both painfully intimate and philosophically rich.
An artistic advancement nearly forty years into Tyler's comics-making career,...
4) Late Bloomer
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Carol Tyler has been a professional (and highly acclaimed) cartoonist for over 20 years, appearing in such venues as Weirdo, Wimmen's Comix, and Drawn & Quarterly magazine. But over the years her status as a working mother has drastically curtailed her ability to set aside time for her cartooning. Thus each rare new story from her pen has been greeted with hurrahs as well they should be, because she's one of the most skillful, caustic, and emphatic...
5) Fab 4 Mania
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Critically acclaimed cartoonist Carol Tyler recreates the exhilaration and excitement of Beatlemania at its height in 1965, her personal obsession with the Beatles, and her odyssey that leads her to the famous Beatles Chicago concert later that year. Told in the voice of its 13-year-old author, Fab 4 Mania is a facsimile of the diary that she kept throughout 1965, and is brimming with rich period details, humor, and insight. It's a look into the life...
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A collection of World War I poetry interpreted by cartoonists.
"As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, poets turned their pens to a world upside down. Many of the Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for their impassioned portrayals of life and death on the Western Front, these poems became, for much of the world, the literary heart of the Great...
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"Origin stories" detailing the beginnings of Baylis' love for all things Alan Moore, drawn by Tony Wolf (a fine autobio storyteller in his own right) and the creative impetus behind him starting his own comic series (hint --- it involves the aforementioned Mr. Pekar and a film premier and is drawn, appropriately enough, by AMERICAN SPLENDOR alums Joe Zabel and Gary Dumm); a section titled "film school" featuring another Sundance premier yarn (for...
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I meet Ethan Hawke, bump into Chris Claremont and Patrick Stewart, share birthdays with Kerry Washington, Grant Morrison, and Johnny Rotten, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi tells me about how he was on Saturday Night Live, I get punched in the face, bring a woman to give to birth, and my six year-old learns the word Shit!