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Literally Graphic
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Приєднався 29 лип 2014
Greetings fellow human, I like to read, think and critique pretty much anything and everything, but mostly I talk about books with pictures. Doesn't matter if it's a graphic novel, comic book, comic strip, webcomic, manga, manhwa, wordless, back of a cereal box, picture book, nonfiction, epic fantasy, science fiction, romance, and/or NSFW I'm talking about.
My goal is to not only to spread the word about the amazing diversity we have in modern comics, but also to learn about and explore them on an artistic/literary level. And while you will hear a lot of personal opinion on this channel, I try and highlight other opinions I find in my internet wanderings.
My goal is to not only to spread the word about the amazing diversity we have in modern comics, but also to learn about and explore them on an artistic/literary level. And while you will hear a lot of personal opinion on this channel, I try and highlight other opinions I find in my internet wanderings.
The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu [cc]
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin’s assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots-she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there’s something about Kye that feels almost too human.
When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry sets off sparks. The only downside? Dr. Lin is enraged by Kye’s growing independence and won’t allow him more freedom. Plus, their relationship throws into question everything Clem thought she knew about AI. After all, if Kye is sentient enough to have feelings, shouldn’t he be able to control his own actions? Where is the line between AI and human? As her past and Kye’s future weigh down on her, Clem becomes determined to help him break free-even if it means risking everything she came to Mars for."
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Transcript: literallygraphic.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/the-infinity-particle-by-wendy-xu-cc/
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When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry sets off sparks. The only downside? Dr. Lin is enraged by Kye’s growing independence and won’t allow him more freedom. Plus, their relationship throws into question everything Clem thought she knew about AI. After all, if Kye is sentient enough to have feelings, shouldn’t he be able to control his own actions? Where is the line between AI and human? As her past and Kye’s future weigh down on her, Clem becomes determined to help him break free-even if it means risking everything she came to Mars for."
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Transcript: literallygraphic.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/the-infinity-particle-by-wendy-xu-cc/
Find Me Elsewhere: linktr.ee/Literally_Graphic
#2024Reading #YALit #ScienceFiction
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Movements and Moments Anthology Edited by Sonja Eismann, Maya Schöningh, + Ingo Schöningh [cc]
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Movements and Moments Anthology Edited by Sonja Eismann, Maya Schöningh, and Ingo Schöningh - Let The River Flow Free: Women Defenders of the Cordillera - text by Gantala Press and Illustrated by Nina Martinez - Mama Dulu - story and art by Citlalli Andrango and Cecilia Larrea, Translated by Renata Duque - Shanti: Beyond the Veil by Bandana Tulachan - The Anarchist Cholas: A Short Story about a...
Homebody by Theo Parish [cc]
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"In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, from harrowing haircuts and finally the r...
After the Spring: A Story of Tunisian Youth by Hélène Aldeguer [cc]
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"In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future in this original graphic novel. Winner of the Raymond Leblanc Foundation's Belgian Prize, and translated into English for the first time, Helene Aldeguer delivers an authentic look...
Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image by Siobhán Gallagher [cc]
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"Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journey from being anxious and unhappy to learning to love herself as she is. I’m proud of the person I’ve become because I fought to become her. At the age of 30, Siobhán Gallagher looks back on her teenage struggling with anxiety and diet culture, desperate to become a beautiful, savvy, and slim adul...
Colin Kaepernick: Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick, Eve L. Ewing & Orlando Caicedo [cc]
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"Colin Change the Game is an inspiring high school graphic novel memoir for readers 12 and up from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick. High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches ...
Ms. Davis: A Graphic Biography by Sybille Titeux de la Croix & Amazing Améziane
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Ms. Davis: Graphic Biography Written by Sybille Titeux de la Croix Art by Amazing Améziane Translated from French to English by Jenna Allen "In Ms Davis, the acclaimed French cartooning duo tell a story of this seminal, revolutionary, 1970s icon through an accessible graphic novel narrative. Born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, Angela Davis’ family fought in the civil rights movement against ra...
The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught [cc]
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"Author-artist Fern Haught weaves an enchanting, gentle fantasy tale of friendship, determination, and respecting nature in their debut graphic novel. Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a little bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger places an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends (and Hadley’s pet s...
Transitions: A Mother's Journey by Elodie Durand and translated by Evan McGorray [cc]
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"When Anne learns that her 19-year-old is a transgender man, she struggles to understand her son’s new identity. A new landmark in nonfiction comics, Transitions is a sympathetic, informative, and moving story of a family’s journey to acceptance. "I thought I was open-minded… The news of my child’s transition hit me like a tidal wave, sweeping away all my preconceived notions. Sweeping away the...
X Gender Volumes 1 & 2 by Asuka Miyazaki [cc]
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" An autobiographical diary/essay manga about finding love in Japan as an X-gender person. At 33 years old, Asuka Miyazaki realizes that they like women! Asuka, however, is neither a woman nor a man instead, they're X-gender, which is a non-binary identity. Follow Asuka through the pages of this autobiographical manga as they record the ins and outs of their journey to finding love with a woman...
White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh [cc]
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White and Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh with a forward by Seth Tobocman "Palestinian political cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh has gained renown worldwide for his stark black-and-white drawings that express the numerous abuses and losses that his countrymen suffer under Israel's occupation and celebrate their popular resistance. This collection includes 180 of Sabaa...
The Comic Book Bible by Toni Matas, Piconyol, and Carlos Rojas [cc]
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"With The Comic Book Bible , pictures tell the story in comic book form! Children ages 6 and up will see the marvelous animals created by God, meet Adam and Eve and the serpent, discover the timeless tale of Cain and Abel, and learn about many other important stories. Adapted from passages from the books of the Old and New Testaments, this innovative Bible includes the stories parents want thei...
Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie [cc]
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Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie. Translated by Edwige-Renée Dro. "Abidjan’s favorite daughter returns in an all-new volume of writer Marguerite Abouet’s beloved series Long-time creative team Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie make a stunning comeback after a lengthy twelve-year hiatus. The seventh installment in the Aya series takes us all back to Yop City―hom...
I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand by L. Nichols [cc]
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"Some books take the whole of a lifetime to write. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand continues Flocks , L. Nichols’s graphic memoir of growing up trans in the rural South. These comics document L.’s further transition, from living as a man to walking the middle path, facing depression, disease, divorce and death. Healing leaves scars, things fall apart, and pronouns change unt...
Blackward by Lawrence Lindell [cc]
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"Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club! Tired of feeling like you don’t belong? Join the club. It’s called the Section. You’d think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs―Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony―can’t find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a spa...
Enemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire by Kassandra Luciuk & Nicole Marie Burton [cc]
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The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Graphic Novels Volumes 1-3 [cc]
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My Love Mix-Up by Wataru Hinekure and Aruko Series Review [cc]
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Manga Dogs Trilogy by Ema Tōyama [cc]
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Ping Pong volumes 1 & 2 by Taiyo Matsumoto [cc]
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Free Inside: The Life & Work of Peter Collins [cc]
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Jesus will return repent
Just found your channel, new fan, gonna watch some more vids
“I also didn’t realize that apparently next month M. Night Shyamalan is releasing a movie based off this” 🧢🧢🧢
I'm not a Catholic. I'm a born-again Christian and this book is trash! Stick to either the original Hebrew and Greek Texts or the King James Text! Do not allow your children to read any Bible that you yourself has not read! This is satanic trash sent to deceive your children! Do not fall for this! How we handle JESUS makes the difference between Heaven and Hell when you leave this earth!
I like the cute little houses walking around, like house shaped turtles <3
I think I’m gonna be reading this myself !! I love this 😭😭
I have this book!❤
Been looking for this exact subject matter for a couple months now! Thank you
I really despise cutesy standard manga drawing style (from an old French dude point of view who was raised with 60''s-70's European golden age comics that goes from Franquin to Moebius in addition to Marvel and DC Comics) BUT I must admit Masashi Tanaka can easily compare to Hugo Pratt or John Buscema in terms of visual expressivity and impact.
6:20 video ends here
nigga how can i pirate this comic? like any website you got ??
Please, how do I get the book
Es un pesimo libro
7:25 wdym without her consent?
If I recall correctly Constantine did not explain this plan to Zed and therefore she did not consent to be “corrupted”
Joe Sacco is probably the journalist with the least amount of integrity out there. Horrible book filled with anti American and pro Palestinian propaganda Nice review though ❤
Well I’ll try and at least match his level of anti-Americanism going forward. Your comment has really inspired me.
@@LiterallyGraphic If you are serious about it then you have to come over to Palestine to see how nicely you'd be treated with your enlightenment and love for same gender. Oh be sure they'd show you some queer love. They love to throw LGBTQ community of the roof more than they like their goats <3
Vampire tales!
Engaging precis of this graphic novel. I found your presentation interesting, informative, balanced, and well paced. So much so that I have purchased 'Palestine'. Your outtake recognising the indigenous tribes I really took to heart. So, I will equally acknowledge the Darkinjung peoples from Woy Woy, NSW, Australia, who's land I occupy.
the whiplash i got when we went from "cute simplistic artstyle" to "whitewashed nuclear family that avoids talking about human class" 😭
I guess I like to keep people on their toes
At first I thought I was experiencing Deja vu cause I literally just watched this same review from four years ago on your older account! Thank you for sharing and spreading the word on these wonderful little gems
I actually have no idea what you are talking about.
Thanks for this review. I really enjoy this series
Wait. You actually refers in your review about the fact that there was no REPRESENTATION OFLGBTQFAK? Who the heck cares? I read Olivier Schrauwen Arsene and enjoyed it, then there was the gay couple (including visual stuff..) I didn't care, I don't think anyone did. Who judges quality of a book based on sexual stuff? That's like eating a pie with your elbows
In general it has become my practice to talk about the inclusion or absence of many different points of identity. It’s just a fact about the book lol.
@@LiterallyGraphic As a straight dude, I really enjoyed reading "why I adopted my husband", I didn't feel that it was missing "straight relationship" in there. All I'm saying is that it shouldn't affect the grade of the story. Inclusion is important, but not mandatory to enjoy a story or to affect its grade. In my opinion. Anyway you have good taste for reading Thomas Ott in the first place 💙
I literally did not “dock points”though for it only being hetero. I just thought the way that women were represented was “old fashioned” and I gave an example of a negative cliche that also is tied to heterosexual relationships.
An interesting contribution to an important subject. I certainly will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation, Meepelous.
I was actually a fan of the dark jem plot line. It highlighted just how much power synergy actually has. It was lightly touched on in the original series but the writers here really got that the thing that makes the pretty light shows can also be a nuck.
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Thanks for sharing this interesting book, Meepelous. It makes me want to share a story of my own about someone else who spent time in Canada in internment camps. Last year, I read the biography of Klaus Fuchs, the famous spy. Today in the USA he is remembered almost exclusively as a spy, but that's misleading. He was a physicist by vocation. His conscience did compel him at one point to share scientific secrets. Fuchs was a promising, young German theoretical physicist, a Socialist and an anti-Nazi activist who had been forced to flee Germany before the war. He fled to the UK and demonstrated his extraordinary abilities in experimental physics. When war broke out, he was detained and interned as were all Germans. The British detained them all together--Nazis, anti-Nazis and Jews--all in the same camp. In the process, some even died. Finally, British physicists involved in the development of the Atomic Bomb were able to convince the UK government to release him and enlist him into their efforts. He was invited to the USA to participate in the Manhattan Project as part of the British Scientific Team. His time in the internment camp had convinced him that the British were not much better than the Germans. He felt, as many of the physicists did, that the power of the atomic bomb should not just belong to one or two nations, so he secretly shared classified scientific information with agents of the USSR. Eventually, he was discovered and arrested. After his conviction on espionage charges, he served 9 years in prison. He was demonized in the USA as a betrayer of the "Free World." Based upon standard protocols in the UK, Fuchs was released on good behavior and returned to East Germany to become an important leader in their Nuclear Energy Program. On August 29th, 1949, Stalin successfully tested his first atomic bomb. Before that date, the USA had utilized the bomb twice on civilian targets. There had been talk of putting the bomb to use again in North Korea, but after the Soviets had their bombs, deterrence kicked in. The US insisted that Stalin's possession of the atomic bomb placed the entire world in danger, but no other atomic or nuclear attacks have been carried out since then by anyone. Could Fuchs perhaps have made the ethical decision?
I loved this book! I also found it very informative with the culture as someone who knew very little about it
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I LOVEE THIS MANGA
I read it in dutch and oml its the most beautiful book ive read
I didn't understand it that well
Astroboy cat
Thanks for the review! This book is ridiculously expensive on eBay. A fun fact, Hagio has on the record stated that Heart of Thomas, her first “BL” manga was directly inspired by one of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy stories called “the Last Day on Earth” in which Astro protects an agender alien robot named Bem who looks like a cherub from the aliens that created the robot to be a bomb that could destroy planets. There was nothing intentionally romantic about it, but it very much plays out like those tragic shoujo manga romance plots. I don’t know if Go Nagai ever went on the record about being inspired by this particular story either, but there’s also a lot of noticeable similarities of Bem with Devilman’s Ryo Asuka, right down to the angelic features and gender shenanigans.
Oops, sorry Hagio’s first shounen ai was the November Gymnasium but I think that inspiration bled into Heart of Thomas as well.
So cool! Thank you for sharing
I normally don't like a rewriting of The Bard's classics... but I liked this! I'm still looking forward to the movie even if Lakeith Stansfeild is no longer in it. It truly was a page turner (just like the video 😅)!
This is hot❤
worthless review of a pathetic immoral pornagraphic worthless book
Pointless comment that is a waste of time while you could go out and do something worthwhile for yourself and others.
Thanks for reviewing this book, Meepelous. I hadn't heard of Collins before but will definitely get this book out of the library!
All I wanted was just a review of a manga; at 2:50, I didn’t need a lecture about “Gender Stereotypes” or “Toxic Masculinity”.
No one forced you to watch the video lol.
One of my favorites. :)
Great vid! I've been making my way through the trade volumes myself although I've kind of been on a little break while I explore other things.
A great find! Thanks for the heads-up, Meepelous!
This is a really good review of a comic of which I've never heard.
Nice review. Taiyo is becoming my favorite artist, and I need to get this one.
The art's so cute! Need to check it out.
You provide overviews of 10 or so visual artists who worked on this volume before summarizing this comic @4:02. I like your analysis of The Invisibles, so you might want to get to that a little faster. Perhaps, you might focus on giving bios only to those who worked on the most issues, e.g., Jill Thompson and Morrison.
LOL, I never imagined you would read this.
maybe tilt the book level to the camera next time cos i cant see shit
I do? I added a second angle because it's more visually interesting then just one. The point is to provide some visual sampling while not opening myself up to accusations of allowing people to read the book through my videos.
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