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This graphic novel is heavy. That's not a pun. It's an acknowledgement that the title fits. The Weight deals with the heavy issues that many people would prefer to sweep under the rug.
Graphic novels hit different. A prose novel leaves it to you to imagine what a scene looks like, while a well-formed graphic tale sucks you right in. Mendes' spare art style and powerful scripting will make you feel and think and I promise you'll still be feeling this one days later.
A relative s depression-era diary inspires a young woman s journey to adulthood. Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly and much of Edie s young life is spent trying to escape this tyrant. 'Why doesn t she ever cry?...Gives me the creeps.' Of course, being a child means she lives a child s life she still has laughter-filled sleepovers and outdoor adventures with the local rat pack of kids still too young to work. But Edie s heart grows callous as her father…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Forthcoming later this winter, Mega Milk is a memoir divided into discreet chapters based on various aspects of the dairy industry. Central to the story is the author's relationship with their parents, feelings about dairy, and commiseration with cows. (Their trans-ness, which disrupts and leavens each of these in different ways, is *not* central to the story, and the lack of scrutiny given an author's transition is refreshing and smart.) What marks the book is curiosity, and what I felt most compelled by while reading is where the author went that I would not have gone, and what the author thought that had not occurred to me. A relatively simple premise, compellingly drawn into a full, quirky narrative, preorders of Mega Milk are my go-to holiday gifts.
A sparkling, funny, and often wrenching portrait-in-essays on the dairy industry, queer intimacy, family, fluidity, whiteness, and cows.
For decades, Megan Milks has wondered what it means to share a last name with the classic white American beverage. Now, Milks takes on their namesake subject in all its dimensions, venturing into the worlds of small dairies, bovine genetics, and manure while also turning their eye on their family and themself. The resulting essays connect the dots between human lactation, Big Dairy, being queer and lonely, climate change, transmasculinity, the bull semen industry, the milky roots of white supremacy, and the…
