Showing posts with label autobiography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autobiography. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

My Life in 24 Frames Per Second

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Anime seem omnipresent in contemporary times, and I feel I did not know much about it before I read this book.  Rintaro is a veteran anime ...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Calamity Before Jane

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I recently borrowed this book from my local library. Libraries RULE!  Calamity Before Jane  is a biography/history book for younger readers,...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Boy vs. Shark

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You know what is still awesome? Libraries! I recently borrowed and read the e-comic version of  Boy vs. Shark  through Libby , because the p...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Steady Rollin': Preacher's Kid, Black Punk, and Pedaling Papa

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I got this book a few years back from a Kickstarter campaign for Birdcage Bottom Books.  Steady Rollin'  is a collection of previously ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

I Was A Teenage Michael Jackson Impersonator, And Other Musical Meanderings

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One of the highlights of this year's HeroesCon for me was meeting Keith Knight and buying this book from him. I Was A Teenage Michael ...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Sunflowers

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Put simply, Sunflowers is an amazing comic, an autobiographical account of what it is like to being bipolar. It goes from hypomania to mania...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

I Was Their American Dream

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I am the child of two immigrants, a German and a Greek, which makes me a Gerk ("jerk") is my hilarious joke. I have my own sense o...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Sk8 Dad Summer: ramps, rebellion, and raising a kid

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Sk8 Dad Summer is one publication in the 2022 Birdcage Bottom Books distribution list, for which there is a Kickstarter currently happenin...
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Saturday, March 5, 2022

Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir

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  I recently received this book as a reward for backing its Kickstarter campaign. Clutter is a frank and enlightening look at one person...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Montana Diary

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Montana Diary is an interesting travelogue/mini-comic that melds history with current politics. It is about a road trip through "Big Sk...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Too Tough To Die: An Aging Punx Anthology

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I have read a few anthologies published by Birdcage Bottom Books (like this one ), and they have always been interesting and/or provocative...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden is a sprawling memoir/historical essay that almost defies categorization. It starts off as a personal hi...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Teaching Artfully

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Earlier this year I reviewed Alex Nall's Are Comic Books Real? , and one of the things that struck me about that book was just how visce...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Our Stories Carried Us Here

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Our Stories Carried Us is a graphic anthology of first-person narratives told by immigrants to the US. They came from a variety of countries...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Man Without Talent

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The Man Without Talent is a landmark manga book, a collection of semi-autobiographical stories by a classic creator who has not published a ...