Graphic Fiction
Volume 40, Number 1
November-December 2018
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Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: Graphic Fiction
Shawn Edrei reviews Humbert Chabuel, Edward Gauvin, trans., The Complete Okko
David William Foster reviews Héctor Oesterheld’s The Eternaut
Erica Haugtvedt reviews Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying
Rachel R. Miller reviews Katie Skelly’s My Pretty Vampire
Shaun Morgan reviews Tony Medina’s I Am Alfonso Jones
Danielle A. Orozco reviews Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Things is Monsters, Book One
Hyesu Park reviews Jillian Tamaki’s Boundless
Evan Thomas reviews Chris Gooch’s Bottled
Feature: Image and Body
Laura Westby Cannon reviews Virginia Konchan’s Anatomical Gift
Eric Longfellow reviews Tim Tomlinson’s This is Not Happening to You
J. Drake Portillo-Swails reviews Reginald Gibbons’s An Orchard in the Street
Book Reviews
Aaron Hammes reviews John Burt Foster, Jr.’s Transnational Tolstoy
Michael Pawluk reviews David Hering’s David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
Daniel Bramer reviews D. Harlan Wilson’s J.G. Ballard
Randall Brown reviews John Dufresne’s Flash! Writing the Very Short Story
Devin O’Shea reviews Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s Vanishing Acts
Duane Niatum’s “A Few Words on American Indian Authors”
Alex Eaker reviews C.W. Cannon’s Sleepytime Down South
Afsheen Farhadi reviews Anna Quinn’s The Night Child
Jan Garden Castro reviews Gaspar Orozco’s The Book of the Peony
Diane Goodman reviews Virgina Konchan’s The End of Spectacle
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