graphic memoir

  • Local Pulitzer Prize Talent and More!

    Local Pulitzer Prize Talent and More!

    The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Tuesday, May 5th, and Seattle (unsurprisingly a City of Literature) was represented incredibly well! Local author and illustrator Tessa Hulls won for Memoir or Autobiography with her incredible graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, while local author Stacey Levine achieved finalist status for Fiction with Mice 1961, Seattle Times… Continue reading

  • Bulosan at 75: Contemporary Filipino/Filipinx Memoirs

    Bulosan at 75: Contemporary Filipino/Filipinx Memoirs

    Carlos Bulosan’s fictionalized memoir America is in the Heart was published 75 years ago this month. The passionate and incendiary account captures the brutality and casual cruelty meted out to Filipino migrants in America, persecution that would continue as the poet and labor organizer was subsequently blacklisted and targeted by the FBI. By the time… Continue reading

  • Comics before Cinema! Part Three

    This is the third and final feature of comics as the original source material before their cinematic adaptations. I admit that I have not watched or read many of what I’ve listed (though not for a lack of trying!) and I made it a point to explore outside the expansive DC and Marvel universe. Today I will be showcasing the nitty gritty of graphic novels and comics, and how those stories… Continue reading

  • Graphic Medicine

    Ever read a comic story with a character that has arthritis? How about someone who lives with anxiety and depression? PTSD? Food poisoning? If so, then you’re already familiar with Graphic Medicine! Graphic Medicine is a genre of comics (with a website!) that examines the intersection of the comics medium with the discourses of healthcare,… Continue reading

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: Comics and Graphic Novels

    Seattle Reads recently celebrated Vietnamese American cartoonist Thi Bui’s comics memoir The Best We Could Do. Bui is one of many, many great Asian American and Pacific Islander American cartoonists. In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, librarians at The Seattle Public list created a list of work  from some of these brilliant cartoonists.… Continue reading

  • Seattle Reads: An Interview with Thi Bui

    In celebration of Seattle Reads 2019, Jess Boyd spoke to Thi Bui about her award- winning graphic novel, The Best We Could Do (TBWCD), the 2019 Seattle Reads selection. _________________________________________ An Interview with Thi Bui by Jess Boyd Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do is a story that moved me, my family and my… Continue reading