The Washington Post speaks to cartoonist Tom Batiuk about “How Funky Winkerbean became the darkest strip on the comics pages.”
“I started out writing about kids in high school who worry about trying to get a date and climbing the rope in gym class,” says the Funky Winkerbean creator this month by Zoom from Medina, Ohio. “Now, I’m […]

Intima journal gives praises to MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration by François I. Luks
 
“MedSpeak Illuminated also contains a treasure trove of information related to the history of medical illustration. In an age when graphic medicine has become a well-respected art and literary genre, Luks presents an absolutely fascinating crash course of […]

Doctor, artist, and writer François I. Luks speaks with the Providence Journal about his new book MedSpeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration.
“MedSpeak Illuminated opens with the story of medical art, which dates to ancient civilizations – and possibly even to cave paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, arguably the greatest medical illustrator ever is […]

Congratulations to Bob Dekle! His book, The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare, has won a Bronze Medal in the Political/Current Events category from the Florida Authors & Publishers Association President’s Awards. 
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Don’t miss this informative interview with So Much More Than a Headache author Kathleen O’Shea.
“As with literature, this state of ambiguity is where many migraineurs find themselves. There are no simple solutions for migraine and its complexity of pain and suffering; there is no ‘cure.’ The ‘answers’ come in fits and spurts through the right […]

Don’t miss your chance to catch the Hemingway in Comics tour. This exhibition features 56 artworks curated by Hemingway in Comics author Rob Elder.
Find out more about the tour, where it’s currently booked and how to bring it to your town.
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MedSpeak Illuminated author François I. Luks speaks on the origins of medical illustration, its relationship to comics, and “the ninth art.”
Enter the ninth art. The term originated in the 1960s in France, where it is still used to describe the world of comics and graphic novels (the six classical arts, according to Hegel’s Aesthetics, were architecture, sculpture, painting, […]

Go To Health media interviews Kathleen O’Shea, author of So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine Through Literature.
“Her collection of essays are profoundly helpful for sufferers of migraine, those who love and care for them, and even the medical doctors who specialize in neurology and headaches.  Literature puts into words what many migraineurs have […]

Green Linden Press gives us this informative interview with Farnaz Fatemi author of Sister Tongueزبان خواهر, Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
“There is a wonderful formal balance to Sister Tongue زبان خواهر. The majority of the poems are short lyrics, but throughout the book are longer, essay-like vignettes or prose poems—imagistic […]

Here’s a nice review from Emerging Civil War for Slavery: Interpreting The Civil War edited by Aaron Astor and Thomas C. Buchanan.
“… an impressive volume that succinctly explores the changing interpretations of slavery. This is not so much a history of American slavery as it is a history of how it has been written about.”—Emerging Civil War
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