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MPLS Sound
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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,...
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...
Work of Art in the Age of Image Generative Reproduction
» Graphic Novel » Non-Fiction
Mature
Political
Conversations around AI are messy.
Observations about Large Language Models morph into observations about Image Generators.
Aesthetic critiques against AI art get twisted into ethical concerns about the technology.
Machine learning computer science, metaphysics, law, and art criticism all merge into one discourse demogorgon.
This graphic novel only looks at one thin strand of that discourse,...
Us
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Humor
What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180º turn? Everything, and yet…nothing.
Us is Sara and Diana’s love story, as well as the story of Diana’s gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things...
Tung tung tung sahur vs smile
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Fighting
Humor
smile defeats queen alien. when its night, he goes to sleep. when Tung Tung Tung sahur comes to kill him.
A Reflection on the Cycle of Violence
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Dystopian
Military
Political
Psychological
A short comic I created to raise awareness about war and violence and its affect on children. I wanted to draw attention to how so many children across the world are having their innocence and childhoods taken away from them. And how their fear is being manipulated into hate and violence by those in power.
Portugal
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Family
School
From the author of the acclaimed Equinoxes comes a return to roots that serves as spiritual renewal. Comics artist Simon Muchat is stuck. Suffering writer's block, uninspired, vegetating as a school art teacher, he is losing direction and his taste for life, until one day he is invited to appear at a comics convention in Portugal, the country his family came from and which he hadn't seen since...
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.
Degas & Cassatt
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Family
Love
Mystery
One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting her, the American painter Mary Cassatt whom we follow closely as well. And it is in the company of the latter that at the twilight of his life, Efa...
Proxy Mom
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Humor
Love
Marietta and Chuck, madly in love, are expecting a baby. But childbirth marks the end of the fairy tale. Zoe's birth didn't go as Marietta imagined, and the maternal instinct is slow to manifest itself. While she no longer recognizes her body, Marietta feels herself losing her footing in the face of this vulnerable baby for whom she is now responsible. Will she manage to feel like a mother? To...
The British Invasion!
» Comic » Non-Fiction
Modern
Pets
A “ little square book” focused on English pop culture since 1962 when the country began its revolution! Because it was in 1962, 60 years ago, that the ‘ ole Albion, that of the monarchy, tea and crumpets and bowler hats took a resolutely modern turn, thanks to a sexy secret agent, a band from Liverpool, and a mini (skirt and car). From the...
