Graphic Nonfiction
Volume 40, Number 2
January-February 2019
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: Graphic Nonfiction
Anne Langendorfer reviews Eleanor Davis’s You & a Bike & a Road
Rachel R. Miller reviews Nagara Kabi’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Ashley Hope Pérez reviews Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Carlos Kelly reviews Eric J. García’s Drawing on Anger: Portraits of U.S. Hypocrisy
Jason B. Treviño reviews Steven T. Seagle and colleagues’ Get Naked
David William Foster reviews Chie Shimano and Kiyoshi Konno’s Che Guevara: A Manga Biography
Jason Novak reviews Kent H. Dixon and Kevin H. Dixon’s The Epic of Gilgamesh
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