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Art Spiegelman still remembers his father’s initial reaction to the idea of turning the Holocaust into a comic book. Vladek Spiegelman, who had survived Auschwitz on strategic cunning and extraordinary luck, did not think much of comic books. He did not think much of comics as a form for telling serious stories. He was not…

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When Marcelo D’Salete began working onTiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom,he had a smaller project in mind. It was supposed to be between 40 and 60 pages, possibly a young adult work with very little text. These ideas differed from his two previous works, the award-winningsRun For It: Stories Of Slaves…

South Korean cartoonist Sanho has become the first Korean creator to win an Eisner Award, one of the comics industry’s most prestigious honors.

Karl Slominski is a lifelong draftsman and picture maker who believes the comics medium is infinite, a construct of impossible things in impossible worlds. A graduate of the industry-renowned Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art, Slominski pursued a career as a cartoonist rooted in the DIY/indie press background. He self-published and self-financed his…