What Kind of Animal Am I?
A comics review in the form of a comic. Graphic graphic novel criticism.
By MariNaomiMarch 9, 2014
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On Loving Women by Diane Obomsawin. Translated by Helge Dascher. Drawn and Quarterly. 88 pages.
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MariNaomi on Diane Obomsawin's On Loving Women
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LARB Contributor
MariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the award-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), the upcoming books Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories and Turning Japanese (2D Cloud), and her self-published zine, Estrus Comics (1998 to 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections, Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women, No Straight Lines, Anything That Loves, QU33R, and Action Girl Comics. Her comics and essays have been featured on The Rumpus, The Weeklings, Truth-out, SFBay.CA, The Comics Journal, The Bay Citizen, XOJane, and more.
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