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Vanessa Davis: Day One
Today is exciting because it’s warm. Like, 80 degrees in the middle of winter warm. I guess that’s what California is supposed to be all about, right? We’re driving to Chico in our own car, which we...
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Vanessa Davis: Day Two
For the last few months, I’ve tried to do more exercise, and have been working out to videos in my living room. I wouldn’t say these are my favorites, but they’re the ones I’ve been using. GILAD The 60...
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Vanessa Davis: Day Three
Last June, I had an art opening at Secret Headquarters in Los Angeles. At the party, Dave introduced me to Stefanie Cragg, a woman around my mom’s age, wearing these really awesome clear Lucite...
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Vanessa Davis: Day Four
Trevor went on a neighborhood walk and saw that someone put out a big box of beautiful, smelly yellow backyard lemons. I have been passionately devoted to finding ways to use them all up before they go...
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Vanessa Davis: Day Five
Today I petsat for my neighbor. She has a “cat,” Meowser*: And two Pomeranians, Jinglebells and Chester*. I went in every hour and a half and let them out in the backyard to pee. Then we played fetch...
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THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (11/30/11 – Stay Hungry)
Not too much up top this week, save for my surprise at the new issue #2 of the McSweeney’s-published quarterly food magazine Lucky Peach being quite so comics-related. I certainly didn’t expect Gary...
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The Top 30 Minicomics of 2011
30. Gag Rag, by Jeff Lok. Lok’s comics have tended to feature funny animal characters engaged in dark, weird acts. There’s a powerful dread that suffuses his work, ameliorated only slightly by a...
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The Big Feminist BUT!
The late ’80s and early ’90s was a sort of heyday for comics anthologies promoting awareness or raising funds for progressive causes: support for people with AIDS (1988’s Strip AIDS USA, edited by...
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“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity...
The following selection is from my book, “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, which looks at the works of seven women...
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