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Author Archives: rosinskynatalie
Lawbreakers and the Vote
When is it right to break the law? To defy the police? Who decides whether an illegal act is an act of heroism rather than just a crime? These questions are on my mind today, Election Day here in the … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels, memoir
Tagged 19th Amendment, African American, Andrew Aydin, British women's suffrage, Bryan Talbot, Christabel Pankhurst, civil disobedience, civil rights, Dotter of her Father's Eye, Dr. Martin Luther King, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Election Day, Emmaline Pankhurst, John Lewis, Kate Charlesworth, March Book One, March Book Two, Mary M. Talbot, memoir, Nate Powell, Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, voting rights, women's suffrage
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Tricks and Treats? Some Serious Holiday Fun
Today’s trick-or-treaters may not know the serious origins of this fun-filled tradition. Their masks and costumes began as disguises for All Hallows’ Eve (now Halloween), the time when ghosts, demons, and other supernatural creatures supposedly could slip easily from their … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels
Tagged All Hallow's Eve, Benjamin Dewey, cats, Charles Perrault, criminal mastermind, Danny Dragonbreath: No Such Thing as Ghosts, demon, Digger: The Complete Omnibus Edition, fantasy, Ganesha, Halloween, hero's quest, Hugo Award, hyena, I Was the Cat, Lloyd Alexander, Mythopoeic Award, nine lives, Paul Tobin, Time Cat., Ursula Vernon, warriors, webzine, wombat
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Selma Lagerlof’s Home and the Swedish “Tom Thumb”
I visited Selma Lagerlof’s rural home in central Sweden–an old manor house called Marbacka, close to the town of Sunne and the city of Karlstad–in May, 2008. I had been thrilled to discover, when planning this trip with my Swedish-American … Continue reading
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Tagged folk tales, Karlstad, Marbacka, Memories of Marbacka, National Library of Sweden, Nils Holgersson, Nobel Prize for Literature, Selma Lagerlof, Sophie Elkan, Sunne, Sweden, Swedish "Tom Thumb", The Changeling, The Further Adventures of Nils, The Legend of the Christmas Rose, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Making the Grade
None of our family now remembers the actual grades that my adult son Daniel earned in fourth grade, but we all remember his early student activism. When the school principal decided that lunchroom noise was getting out of hand, she … Continue reading
Jack the Ripper: The Story Behind the Book
They had names but not faces. Their dismembered body parts were identified but not their dreams and hopes. Even a century later, the world seemed to care more about their mysterious killer, Jack the Ripper, than it did about … Continue reading
To End All Wars
It was called the “war to end all wars.” Yet this month—marking the 100th anniversary of the first battles of World War I (1914 to 1918)—brings new headlines and sound bites about wars and battles. Images of wounded children, weary … Continue reading
Posted in graphic novels
Tagged African American soldiers, Canaan White, Charley’s War, Goddam This War, graphic novel, It Was the War of the Trenches, Jacques Tardi, Joe Colquhoun, Joe Sacco, Max Brooks, Pat Mills, The Battle of the Somme, The Great War, The Harlem Hellfighters, World War I
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Summertime Lessons
It’s summer and school vacation time here in the Northern Hemisphere. In Australian author/illustrator Shaun Tan’s ‘neighborhood,’ though, December through February are the warmest months, bringing students their long school vacation. Regardless of this geographical difference, both Tan and the … Continue reading
Esther Abrahams: From Convict to ‘First Lady’
Last February in Australia, an 1823 portrait in Sydney’s Jewish Museum riveted my attention. Just a few tantalizing facts identified its dark-eyed society matron. I had to know more . . . . Her Newgate Prison jailors never imagined how … Continue reading
Graphic Content! The Culture of Comic Books (Compass Point Books, 2010)
Donald Duck in Sweden? Teenage superheroes with everyday problems? People imprisoned or executed for creating comic books? The life of Buddha honored in a graphic novel? Get ready to be astonished by the pop culture blaze kept alive today by … Continue reading
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Japan–47 Ronin and 50,000 Manga
47 Ronin and 50,000 manga highlighted my trip to Japan last month. Our week in Tokyo began with a professional gathering featuring writer Sean Michael Wilson. His recent The 47 Ronin: A Graphic Novel (2013), illustrated by Akiko Shimojima, recounts … Continue reading
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