Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Constitution Illustrated

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Up until now, the US Constitution has proven to be a sturdy and adaptable document that has guided the country through troubled times by de...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

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I am a big fan of Brian "Box" Brown , a comics artist who uses a clean, minimalist art style to tell many a nonfiction tale. Here,...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful

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Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful is another well-researched, informative, and thought-provoking book by Darryl Cunningham ....
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Friday, November 5, 2021

History Comics: The American Bison: The Buffalo's Survival Tale

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I have been very impressed by the History Comics series of graphic novels, and this entry The American Bison pairs will thematically with ...
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...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

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My Friend Dahmer is one of my all-time favorite graphic novels, a dark exploration of high school friendships and the many issues that unde...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Action Presidents, Books 3 & 4

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I reviewed the first two volumes in this series last year, but they have recently been re-issued in color, to coincide with these two new, ...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Woman World

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Imagining a world where all the men have ceased to exist and women are left to run everything has been done in comics form before , but th...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Action Presidents: Books 1 & 2

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  Action Presidents is a nonfiction series aimed at upper elementary/middle school students. They are quite detailed and nuanced, pretty...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

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I am a HUGE fan of Pénélope Bagieu 's comics. California Dreamin' and Exquisite Corpse were two of my favorite graphic novels in...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Founding Fathers Funnies

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Peter Bagge is one of my all time favorite comics artists. He is an award winning artist with decades of comics to his credit, including...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Snowden

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Ted Rall has been writing and drawing political comics and journalism for decades now. He has written critically about all stripes of p...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Age of Selfishness: Ayn Rand, Morality, and the Financial Crisis

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The Age of Selfishness is one of those books that makes me blanch that these things are called graphic "novels." This book is mo...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and "Free Trade"

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I know I have not read or reviewed Economix (yet), but I wanted to share this new, topical comic from its creators Michael Goodwin and Dan ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Veeps: Profiles in Insignificance

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Top Shelf Month enters its second week with a "real" book. I was a little bit surprised when I cracked open this little har...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Burma Chronicles

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This is the third travelogue from Guy Delisle , an illustrator and animator who travels the globe for work and also to accompany his wife...