Take a little walk to the edge of town, and go across the tracks to where the Schnappviecher looms like a… well, like a Schnappviecher, and you’ll find cartoonist Marie Enger binding that prickling shiver up the back of your neck into the shape of ink on paper.
Read moreConversations: Carol Tilley with Marnie Galloway
In a class I teach at the University of Illinois for future librarians on helping readers find comics they’ll enjoy, I regularly share a two-page spread from Marnie Galloway’s mini-comic Medusa.
Read moreEp. 27: Emil Ferris
On 15 October 2020, we talked with graphic novelist Emil Ferris! Emil grew up in pre-Urban Renewal Chicago at a time when Chicago was a down-at-the-heels, blue-collar palace where the silent picture stars of Essanay Studios still hobbled the streets of Uptown. Ferris gets a good portion of whatever strength or inspiration she has from the beauty and tenacity of this amazing city.
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