Tag Archives: Joe Sacco

Summer Reading–To Sip or Chew

Posted on May 28, 2018 by rosinskynatalie

What kinds of reading will you do this summer? “Summer reading” can have very different meanings. Will yours be hummingbird sips of brief pieces, pages of mainly light-hearted material scanned in between other outdoor activities? Or will you and yours … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, manga, picture books | Tagged Agnodice, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, California Dreamin':Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas, Cheryl Bridges, Christine Jorgensen, Clementine Delait, Delia Akeley, Emma Williams, Footnotes in Gaza, Frances Glessner Lee, Gaza, Giorgina Reid, Hedy Lamarr, heroic women, Ibrahim Quraishi, Joe Sacco, Josephine Baker, Katia Krafft, Las Mariposas, Lozen, Mae Jemison, manga, Margaret Hamilton, Message to Adolf, Message to Adoph, Montana Kane, Naziq al-Abid, Nelly Bly, Nzinga, Osamu Tezuka, Palestine, Penelope Bagieu, Sonita Alizadeh, summer reading, Temple Grandin, Tezuka Osamu, The Story of Hurry, Tove Jansson, women's biographies, women's history, Wu Zetian | Leave a comment

After the Brussels Bombings: Rethinking Heroes and Villains

Posted on April 1, 2016 by rosinskynatalie

This is not the blog post I had planned to write on April Fools’ Day. But reverberations from the recent Brussels bombings (and now the Lahore attacks) shifted my attention, compelling me back to 9/11 and its explosions. Read on. … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, graphic novels | Tagged 9/11 attacks, Al-Quaeda, anti-Semitism, Art Spiegelman, Baba Yaga's Assistant, Belgian cartoon, bombings, Brussels, Charlie Hebdo, Christians, DC superheroes, Emily Carroll, Footnotes in Gaza, Gavrilo Princip The Assassin Who Ignited World War I, George Remi, Herge, heroes, In the Shadow of No Towers, Islamic terrorists, Joe Sacco, Journalism, Lahore, Marika McCoola, Marvel superheroes, Muslims, Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, Palestine, racism, Spiderman, terrorism, Tintin, Tintin in America, Tintin in the Congo, villains | Leave a comment

Diversity: The December Dilemma and Beyond

Posted on December 3, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

The month of December has long foregrounded issues of diversity in multicultural countries. As Christmas approaches in predominantly Christian countries, how do we acknowledge the presence and holidays of other religious groups? Some non-Christian parents even call the problems raised … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, graphic novels, picture books, Uncategorized | Tagged A Fine Dessert, Adrian Alphonsa, Adrian Wallace, Akiko Shimojima, Amazing Spiderman, Barry Deutsch, Beautiful Yetta's Hanukkah Kitten, Beautiful Yetta: The Yiddish Chicken, Buddhist, burqua, Chasidic Jews, Christians, Christmas, Cold Mountain: The Legend of Han Shan and Shih Te, comic books, controversy, Daniel Pinkwater, December dilemma, diversity, E.B. White, Emily Jenkins, Footnotes in Gaza, G. Willow Wilson, graphic novel, Hanukkah, Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite, hijab, historical events, holidays, Islam, Islamic terrorist attacks, Israel, Israel's independence, J.P. Seaton, Jake Richmond, Jews, Jill PInkwater, Joan Sfar, Joe Sacco, Kamala Khan, Kelly Starling Lyons, Ms. Marvel Volume 4: Last Days, Ms. Marvel: Crushed, Ms. Marvel: Generation Why, Ms. Marvel: No Normal, multicultural countries, Muslims, Na'ima B Robert, Pakistanti-American, Palestine, Paris, picture book, Ramadan, Ramadan Moon, Sean Michael Wilson, Shirin Adl, slavery, Sophie Blackhall, Spanish, superhero, Tea Cakes for Tosh, teen, terrorist recruiters, the Catastrophe, The Rabbi's Cat, ultra-Orthodox, Yiddish, Zen Buddhism | Leave a comment

Refugees: Haunting Thoughts at Halloween

Posted on October 2, 2015 by rosinskynatalie

Nowadays, Halloween is a time for kids to play at being scared or scary. Wearing fierce masks or dressing up as superheroes, children reassure themselves that monsters do not exist and that they themselves can be powerful. There is really … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged "The Unwanted", A Game of Swallows, Alexis Siegel, Annemarie Young, Anthony Robinson, atheism, Chechnya, child refugees, Congo, elementary school, France, Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Greg Salsado, Halloween, Hamzat's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, Hungary, I Remember Beirut, Iraq, Jews, Joe Sacco, June Allan, Kurdish, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Loic Dauvillier, loss of faith, Malta, Marc Brown, Marc Lizano, Meltem's Journey: A Refugee Diary, Mildred Batchelder Award, Miriam Katin, Mohammed's Journey: A Refugee Diary, R.L. Stine, refugees, Seeking Refuge, Soviet, Sydney Taylor Book Award, The Little Shop of Monsters, Turkey, We Are On Our Own, World War II, Zeina Abirached | Leave a comment

To End All Wars

Posted on August 26, 2014 by rosinskynatalie

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 | Leave a comment