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Rikers Island ( YARD HEAT )
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Fighting
Gangs
Humor
Interactive Roleplay Crime Fiction | The Creator of Rikers Island Comics — a visual crime saga built from NYC roleplay storytelling, blending prison politics, street betrayal, gang wars, and dark humor into picture-only comic books, collectible lore, and immersive urban storytelling.
Alice On the Run: One Child's Journey Through the Rwandan Civil War
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Political
Gitarama, in the Southern Province of Rwanda, 1994. Five-year-old Alice enjoys a peaceful childhood with her parents and little sisters, but life as she knows it is about to change forever as the genocide of the Tutsis erupts, forcing her to escape her village with her family. It is on the hot roads of the Democratic Republic of Congo, known then as Zaire, that Alice grows up, bouncing from one...
River of Ink
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Modern
“Why do you draw?” A simple question by a young boy moves the author to travel with him down the River of Ink, which flows from the present day back to the very first illustration drawn by a human. Along the way, they visit legendary artists of the past and encounter personal tales that explore the philosophy of communication through drawing. Why do we draw? It’s a simple question with a...
Not Angry Enough
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Dystopian
Humor
Music
Organized Crime
Political
Psychological
Back for issue 8 of the zine about the Portland DIY music scene and related.
Cover by James Edward Clark
This time we start with the dust up between Manny Espindola and Bill Vockeroth of Angry Samoans. Also we couldn't be more disappointed with Save Ferris.
Berlin recounts her Bacon Wrestling days in the first three years of Bacon Cup.
Also in the issue: Andrew Loomis, Frank...
Young Katherine Johnson
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Leading Ladies
Science
Space
Katherine Johnson grew up to be the first Black woman to work at NASA, figuring out the path for spacecrafts to go around the Earth and land on the Moon! But before she set her sights on outer space, she was busy making the Earth's surface her laboratory! Equipped with a mind for math, nothing gets past Katherine: how did Noah manage to put 48,000 animals on his ark, not to mention all that...
Beethoven
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Music
Tell the French that there is still one man in Austria who is not subject to them, and that he does not bear any title!' 1806. The great Napoleonic conquests are underway and Austria is now occupied by French troops. One fateful night, while preparing to host a group of the occupying officers, von Lichnowsky requests—and then demands—Beethoven play for his guests to show “what remains of a...
50 Shades of Red Light
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Friendship
Modern
Political
Understanding sex positive feminism and it's importance in modern feminist movements through short stories of different characters
(This was a class assignment between me and amazing friends of mine)
MPLS Sound
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Music
When Prince burst onto the music scene in 1978, he put Minneapolis on the map. Consequently, many up and coming acts followed the trail that he blazed. This is the story of Starchild, a group that almost made it to stardom in 1983, led by a young woman whose desire to change the world through her music ignited a revolution.
Through Starchild’s journey, MPLS Sound chronicles, from a distance,...
Barfly Magazine (PDX)
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Friendship
Humor
Leading Ladies
Music
Mystery
Political
Miss Jen Lane and friends/staff published BARFLY for over two decades.
BARFLY was a CD shaped guide to bars in Portland that easily fit in your pocket.
Peril Press is working on digitally reprinting the issues of the much-loved zine. Now with more color.
Walking Distance
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Modern
Walking Distance is Lizzy Stewart's poignant and contemporary illustrated essay on the experience of being a woman out walking. Merging the personal and the political, observation and contemplation, Lizzy examines what her life is and wonders what it should be; what is expected of a thirty year old woman by society, by family and friends and by herself.
Broadcast: The TV Doodles of Henry Flint
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Aliens
Humor
Monsters
The mind of Henry Flint is a galaxy of beautiful atrocities – a nightmare factory where the bestial becomes benign, the mundane magical.
Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Political
You won the election... now what? Activist organizing meets government gridlock as a millennial New Yorker cartoonist follows a first-year senator on her unforgettable journey — from outsider to insider.
