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Loneliness Is As American As Apple Pie In Kristen Radtke's Graphic Novel "Seek You": BUST Revi
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Kristen Radtke is a narrator as unflinching and bold as readers should be before approaching this graphic novel. Seek You demonstrates how loneliness is an experience that’s both universal and achingly ...
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Created on 09 July 2021
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8 Excellent Books By Immigrant Authors To Read This National Immigrant Heritage Month
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... of the country as a whole.
1. Refuge: A Novel by Dina Nayeri Image via Penguin Random House At 10 years old, Nayeri immigrated to Oklahoma from Tehran. Refuge is a semi autobiographical novel that tells ...
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Created on 14 June 2021
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9 Books By International LGBTQ+ Authors For Present And Future Pride Celebrations
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... and critical acclaim, this is a graphic novel about a 28-year-old Japanese woman who is struggling with her sexuality and mental health. With minimalist drawings that underscore a powerful story of struggle ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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... Dr. Helen Sheumaker, author of Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hair Work, told National Geographic. Throughout 19th-century England, women would make wreaths from the hairs of a single deceased person ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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The Kind Of Miscarriage We Don't Talk About: "Catalogue Baby" Excer
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Myriam Steinberg's Catalogue Baby is a graphic novel about an indomitable spirit who, like so many women, lives through fertility struggles, miscarriages, and the deep-seeded ...
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Created on 12 March 2021
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Nadia Owusu's 'Aftershocks' Captures The Earthquake Of A Life Rattled By Loss And Displaceme
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... BUST
"Rx" Is A Painfully Honestly Graphic Memoir About Living With Bipolar Disorder
"The Office Of Historical Corrections" Is A Beautifully Honest Collection Of Novellas
Sara Schaefer's Contemplative ...
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Created on 14 January 2021
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8 New Years Resolutions for 2021 That Don’t Involve Losing Weight
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... Even if you just feel like picking up a graphic novel, or finding a collection of short stories or poems, that definitely counts. Currently, my “To-Read” list includes classics like Orlando by Virginia ...
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Created on 17 December 2020
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How Women And YA Are Changing The World Of Comics
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... schedule to grow all DC imprints.
One imprint that has been incredibly successful in attracting female readership and providing more writing jobs to women in graphic novels is DC’s imprint geared towards ...
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Created on 12 November 2020
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Sara Schaefer's Contemplative Memoir Invites Us To Laugh Along With Her ...
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... the reader to see herself in the pages of a memoir is the hallmark of any well-written autobiographical work, and Schaefer achieves this nimbly with a debut that more than lives up to its title.
By Brandy ...
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Created on 23 October 2020
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How One Woman Changed The Video Game World Forever
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... to venture forth, uncover clues, and win the game. But it wasn’t just the text, flashing on the screen of an 8-bit Apple II that shot out like a call from the wild—it was the graphics. They were monochrome, ...
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Created on 09 October 2020
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The Women's Prize Excludes Akwaeke Emezi With Transphobic Requirement
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... for Freshwater, a semi-autobiographical work exploring their Igbo heritage and gender identity, which is being adapted into a television series by FX. The nomination was the first time that a non-binary ...
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Created on 05 October 2020
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Meet Some Of TIME100's Most Influential Women of 202
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... the gifts of the TIME100 list is highlighting innovators that are often relegated to the back pages of a National Geographic. One such 'Leader,' as TIME calls them, is Nemonte Nenquimo, an Amazonian woman ...
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Created on 23 September 2020
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What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
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... photo: Perks of Being a Wallflower, via YouTube
More from BUST
Quarantine Holds Different Hardships For Those With Eating Disorders
How Artist Kim Krans Processed Her Pain In Gorgeous Graphic Memoir ...
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Created on 17 September 2020
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Set Your Spooktober Off Right With These Queer And Women-Centered Virtual Literary Events
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... here to save your spot!
Story art: Gabriella Shery is an illustrator, graphic designer, and comic artist from Brooklyn, New York. You can find her work on Instagram @gabshery, or on her website at ...
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Created on 16 September 2020
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Author Caitlin Moran Proves Why She's One Of The World's Funniest Feminists On BUST's "Poptarts" Pod
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... York Times bestseller. And her 2014 autobiographical coming-of-age novel, How to Build a Girl, was adapted into a film starring Beanie Feldstein that premiered in 2019.
When Moran finished How to Be ...
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Created on 11 September 2020
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Mistakes We Made At The Grocery Store: An Excerpt From "Tuca And Bertie" Creator Lisa Hanawalt's New Bo
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This article originally appeared in Lisa Hanawalt's book I Want You, published by Drawn & Quarterly and out now. It has been reprinted here with permission.
More from BUST
I'm Queer And A ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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DC Comics’ Latest Event Showed The Necessity Of Diversity In Superhero Media
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... when Neil Gaiman wrote the graphic novel Sandman, which is slated to become a show on Netflix but, because of COVID, has been delayed.
Fresh off her run with Wonder Woman, Wilson has created an entirely ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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“She-Ra” Creator Noelle Stevenson Talks Flawed Heroines And Women In Animation: BUST Interview
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... got her start in comics? Before Stevenson brought to life Catradora – aka, one of the most adorable ships in the history of Tv – she got her start creating an online graphic novel called Nimona.
Nimona is ...
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Created on 16 July 2020
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Week Of Women: HAIM, Megan Thee Stallion, Arca
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Warrior Nun
Based on a graphic novel of the same name, Netflix’s new fantasy series tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a morgue and discovers she’s part of an ancient ...
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Created on 25 June 2020
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12 Books By Black Women Authors To Add To Your To-Read List
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... and desires, no matter how much love and effort one puts into the attempt. –Alexandra Chang
What We Lose: A Novel by Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons’ semi-autobiographical debut novel has a depth that ...
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Created on 12 June 2020
