Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Your interviews into a graphic novel

Dear Body by Lea Bordier

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Sometimes working around books is a drawback. Oh sure, I’ve access to almost any book I want, but then again, I have access to almost any book I want! The riches overflow and I keep finding “one more” to look at/read. Due to this, I kept pushing Dear Body by Lea Bordier (with 12 female and non-binary illustrators) aside. Finally, one day I happened to look over at the saddest spot in our store: our return cart. Sometimes it’s necessary to return a book to […]

The artist and her brain

Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo

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I wanted Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo (and Crank) to be this year’s Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli, but it did not turn out exactly as hoped.  Still, Memento Mori is amazing and an emotional journey of life, possible death, and living, but maybe I was not as invested in the story as I was during my Pioli reading.  After all, I read hers soon after/while I was dealing with health issues of my own, so I was still pretty […]

Girls just want to have graphic hyperbole

Girl Juice by Benji Nate

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Benji Nate is one screwed up person and you will love or hate their work. Sometimes at the same time, like Girl Juice was for me.  This graphic novel is broken down into two main sections. The first follows four roommates that might not really like each other, but they do seem to love each other and have each other’s backs. Unless there is a cute boy, or work, or you know, they have something better to do. We mostly focus on Bunny (the self-proclaimed […]

An unorthodox biography for an unorthodox princess

Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

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CBR15Passport (other country English princess/Canadian author), Awhile back I contacted the company Street Noise for a few reader copies and put myself on their radar so I could receive emails from Liz like she sent the other day. This email was promoting a mid-June 2023 graphic novel release called Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth. Attached was an online reader link and boy did I want to read it. But I was at work and must wait. When I finally etched out reading time, […]

A very well done piece of comics journalism by Sofia Warren

Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren

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CBR15Passport Recommended by a Friend If I am halfway through Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, that is saying something. Only I wish Sofia Warren had said something. Or at least something interesting. I mean, I was expecting something Exciting! Flashy! Political! I was expecting a biography of a socialist senator with the job thing tossed in. I am going to assume it is rare on state or national level, let alone in New York to be elected running on a Socialistic ticket. (Please […]

An anti-macho vigilante in tight panther leggings

The Amazing Camel Toe by Claire Duplan

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“Constance, a modern, young illustrator, takes revenge for the thousands of attacks suffered daily by women with a comic of her own, titled The Amazing Camel Toe, celebrating the adventures of an anti-macho vigilante in tight, panther leggings” And Claire Duplan gives life to this SuperWoman. This package of Womanhood and Badassery! The Amazing Camel Toe is a graphic novel that is about “the worst of the punks.” Constance made her heroine to be a better version of herself. More confident, more able to stand […]



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