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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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!
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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...