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A Dutchman in Upstate New York, circa 1634
Last year I attended a panel at New York Comic Con called “Telling a Story With Imagined Pictures,” where various creators of nonfiction comics talked about their work. One of these was the artist...
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Westward Explorers
American history is full of great stories, but few capture the imagination as much as the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the scope of the...
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Manifested Destiny
Last week the popular computer game The Oregon Trail made its way to Facebook, courtesy of The Learning Company and Blue Fang Games. For those too old or young to have experienced it, The Oregon Trail...
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A Post-War Postcard
Despite not being as long or as seminal as other epic works such as Craig Thompson’s Blankets, Alan’s War by Emmanuel Guibert is probably the longest I’ve ever taken in reading a graphic novel. It’s...
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Ben-ding Over Backwards
While Ben Hatke of Zita the Space Girl may seem like an old hand at art and illustration, one thing he’s a newcomer to is bookstore signings. In this short strip set at Politics and Prose, watch him...
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MoCCA Fest 2011: Sequential Non-fiction
As we mentioned it several times last week, it should be no surprise that we attended MoCCA Fest 2011 at the Lexington Avenue Armory this past weekend. We walked the floor, attended panels, and of...
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A War with No Name
Notes for a War Story by Gipi isn’t a work of nonfiction, but it was certainly inspired by real events—the author lives in northern Italy, right near the western border with Slovenia. If not for the...
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