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Fun Home: A Family TragicomicBechdel draws some family photographs in a tighter, more realistic style than the surrounding panels. The changes in texture slow you down and mark places where she is looking at a surviving object. Compare those pages with the scenes she draws around them, where the arrangement of a room can…0 - 2
Good TalkJacob places drawn figures against photographic and illustrated backgrounds. A familiar face can recur in a new conversation, letting the background and the words alter what the face seems to say. The collage makes that change visible in a way a description of the conversation alone could not.0 - 3
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?Chast alternates her cartoons about caring for her aging parents with family photographs and other traces of their lives. The photos interrupt the comic rhythm and give you a different kind of evidence. Watch how that interruption changes the way you read the next cartoon.0 - 4
StitchesSmall remembers a childhood in which there was much that adults left unsaid. When surgery affects his voice, silence becomes part of what the drawings have to convey. Try following a run of panels before reading any captions to see how posture, distance, and the gaps between images carry a scene.0 - 5
Dancing After TENVivian Chong and Georgia Webber made this memoir together, drawing on work Chong began as she was losing her sight. The early drawings record what she could put on paper at the time. Set beside the later comics, they let you see the difference between documenting a change as it happens and giving…0 - 6
Dumb: Living Without a VoiceWhen Webber loses her speaking voice for months, she uses red and black and lets the marks on the page vary in size and density. The variation gives pressure and interruption a visual form. Read for how the page itself changes when an exchange becomes difficult.0 - 7
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic MemoirHulls follows three generations of women through family stories and historical research. The ghost imagery gives a visible form to people and events that are difficult for her to reach through family memory alone. Watch for when a drawn image can make a connection that an interview or record leaves…0 - 8
Poppies of IraqBrigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim begin with a childhood photograph of Findakly by a winged lion statue. The short illustrated scenes that follow set memories of family and school alongside changes in Iraq that altered their lives. Watch how often a single image brings those two scales together.0 - 9
SpinningWalden’s limited palette lets a small change of color stand out in memories of figure skating. The dark rink and the space between movements make an early practice feel different from a performance. Read for the repetition of those places and gestures as her feelings about skating change.0 - 10
I Was Their American DreamGharib draws a chart of the different customs she learns to follow as Filipino, Egyptian, and American. The book can move from a remembered encounter to a page that lets you compare its competing expectations at a glance. The bright colors and playful layouts make those switches easy to follow…0
