Today on Oh Joy Sex Toy (previously) guest-artist Alex P Perkins offers us a graphic memoir of her breast reduction surgery in 10th grade, and the way it put her on a journey toward “loving my body for what it is: mine.”
Perkins’s work is a powerful reminder that the graphic form is exceptionally well-suited to memoir and personal storytelling, from Maus to Fun House to Zahra’s Paradise.
My Breast Reduction [Alex P Perkins/Oh Joy Sex Toy]
Year of the Rabbit: a graphic novel memoir of one family’s life under the Khmer Rouge
In 1975, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia after expelling a US puppet regime, surviving a brutal US bombing campaign despite the massive asymmetry between the Cambodian forces and the US military. Tian Veasna was born three days after the Khmer Rouge took power, and spent his formative years in forced labor camps as his family were beaten, starved, tortured and murdered. Today, Veasna is a comics creator living in France, and in Year of the Rabbit, Veasna creates a coherent story out of his family’s narratives, giving us a ground-level view of the horrors of the Pol Pot regime, whose campaign of genocide led to the deaths of more than a million people.
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Enjoy “iCthulhu,” a free Lovecraftian cyberpunk webcomic
My buddy Dave Ganjamie and I have been collaborating on comics for a few years now. Not all of our brainstorm-and-sketch sessions end somewhere exciting, but we did have one fun idea that came to fruition. It was the fall of 2013, and Dave half-jokingly challenged me to write him a — his words, and […]
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Rare new video interview with R. Crumb
Legendary underground cartoonist R. Crumb in a rare video interview recorded a few months back during the Louisiana Literature festival at Humlebæk, Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. From a summary of Crumb’s comments: “I was so alienated when I was young, that drawing was like my only connection to society. That was the only […]
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Relive the golden age of writing with these leather notebooks and journals
In the digital age, it can seem as though the life of the physical notebook or diary has come and gone. But most serious writers will tell you that there’s a special connection that comes from putting pen to paper, and these Leather Notebooks & Journals will help you bring that magic back. Relive the […]
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Fine-tune your spelling and grammar with this Chrome extension
Nothing is worse than firing off an important email only to realize later on that it was riddled with typos and plagued with poor sentences. This WhiteSmoke Chrome Extension ensures that you’ll never have to endure such post-send woes ever again, and a 5-year subscription is available for over 90% off its usual price right […]
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This unique espresso maker belongs in every coffee-lover’s kitchen
The morning coffee routine is a wonderful thing—offering ambitious people a chance to rid themselves of sleepiness and fatigue so they can confront the day’s challenges head-on. But if you’re looking to add some style to what’s probably by now a drab and somewhat boring caffeine routine, check out this Alessi Pulcina 3-Cup Espresso Maker, […]
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