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Holiday Break Comics Reading Reviews

Why Is Everybody Yelling? by Marisabina Russo

Crumbs by Dante Stirling

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter

Will Eisner Reader by Will Eisner

Master Keaton Vols. 2 and 3 by Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki

December 31, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

The plus side of sitting around for a week of vacation is that I get a lot of comics reading done! I was lucky enough to receive a lot of interesting books for the holiday. Below are some pocket reviews: Why Is Everybody Yelling? This is a graphic memoir about Marisabina Russo’s childhood growing up in Queens in the late 1950s and 1960s. Her Jewish mother had converted to Catholicism to marry her father before their divorce, and then moved to NYC to raise her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter, Dante Stirling, graphic memoir, graphic novels, Laura Gao, Marisabina Russo, Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki, Will Eisner

GentleRain's CBR15 Review No:150 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, and Oscar O. Jupiter, Dante Stirling, graphic memoir, graphic novels, Laura Gao, Marisabina Russo, Naoki Urasawa, Hokusei Katsushika, and Takashi Nagasaki, Will Eisner ·
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