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After three years in Milan, Matteo returns home to the provincial country town where he was born and from which he had fled. Coming out as a young gay man in a provincial country town had led to ugly clashes with his conservative father, and the urban metropolis of Milan had been a welcome change from the stifling small town life of his childhood and the anger and bewilderment of some members of...
Sequential Magazine
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Modern
Not a Comic but a Magazine interviewing Canadian indie comic creators so you can get to know them better and discover their work! Find more at sequentialmagazine.ca
Lighter Than My Shadow
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Medical
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest and listen to parental threats of having to eat her dinner for breakfast. But normal behavior can soon turn into something sinister and deadly. This is a story of struggle, recovery, and a trip into the black heart of anorexia.
It's an exposure of those who prey on the weak and an inspiration to anyone who believes...
Salmonella Smorgasbord
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Mature
Monsters
Occult
Supernatural
A compilation of comics, art and graphics by the cartoonist Mark Stafford,
collecting his small press books, magazine strips, anthology contributions
and previously unpublished works under two covers for the first time.
Salmonella Smorgasbord will also contain a hefty selection of Mark’s illustration work, as well as theatre posters, record covers, beer labels and t-shirt designs, cartoons,...
50 Shades of Red Light
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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)
Shape of Ideas
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Faith
Humor
“[Snider has] created something unique: a synthesis of comics, philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal ideas in cartoon boxes.” —The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhat does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian...
Happiness Will Follow
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Family
Love
Mike Hawthorne’s mother is left alone to raise her son in New York City, a city that torments them both with its unforgiving nature. But when Mike falls victim to an old world Santeria death curse, a haunting sign from the old country of something his mother could never truly escape—she begins a series of events that drive him away both physically and emotionally.
For the first time ever,...
Form of a Question
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Family
Andrew Rostan is excellent at remembering facts and recalling the memories he associates with those facts—memories of deaths in the family and extraordinary people. At the age of twenty-two and suddenly a contestant on the very game show he associates with the happiest moments in his life, Rostan’s about to realize that existence is like JEOPARDY! and that all the answers are staring you in...
Mom's Cancer
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Family
Humor
Medical
Science
A cartoonist chronicles how he and his grown siblings dealt with their mother’s cancer diagnosis and treatment in this Eisner Award–winning graphic novel.Mom’s Cancer is a graphic novel about one family’s struggle with metastatic lung cancer. Honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous, it is a look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on...
Algeria Is Beautiful like America
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Friendship
Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a "Pied-Noir," the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother's death, Olivia found some of her grandmother's journals and letters describing her homeland. Now, ten years later, she resolves to travel...
Walking Distance
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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.
