Focus: Graphic Fiction — November / December 2018

Graphic Fiction

Volume 40, Number 1
November-December 2018

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Frederick Luis Aldama’s Introduction to Focus: Graphic Fiction

James J. Donahue reviews editor Ariogn Starr’s Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, Vol. 1; editor Lee Francis, IV’s Native Realities Anthology; Jon Proudstar’s Tribal Force; editors Elizabeth LaPensée and Weyshoyot Alvitre’s Deer Woman; Dale Deforest’s Hero Twins; and editor Arigon Starr’s Indigineous Superhero Sketchbook 2

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

Jennifer Spiegel reviews Philippe Charlier’s Zombies: An Anthropological Investigation of the Living Dead

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Joan Richardson’s How to Live, What to Do: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens

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

Richard Jeffrey Newman reviews the Unbearables and editors Ron Kolm and SHalom Newuman’s From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Fashionable Philosophy”

Frederick Luis Aldama — An Interview with Katie Skelly