Tahneer Oksman is an assistant professor of Academic Writing at Marymount Manhattan College. She is the author of “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs (Columbia University Press, 2016), and the co-editor, with Seamus O'Malley, of the anthology, The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell: A Place Inside Yourself (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). Image courtesy of Liana Finck.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“I Really Had to Reinvent Myself”: An Interview with Julie Doucet
Tahneer Oksman talks to Julie Doucet about her new collection, "Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet."...
As Long as You Stay Alive There’s Hope: An Interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Tahneer Oksman talks to comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb about her recently reissued collection, "Love That Bunch."...
“The Things That Scare You”: Dominique Goblet’s “Pretending Is Lying”
Tahneer Oksman on the images that can override images in Dominique Goblet's graphic memoir "Pretending Is Lying."...
Reading Aloud with Julie Doucet
Each Julie Doucet collection is full of surprises, reflecting the artist’s investment in materiality and language. "Carpet Sweeper Tales" is no different....
The Unapologetic Pursuit of Pleasure
Rancourt's undertakings require the kind of bravura that emerges from a heroically unapologetic pursuit of pleasure....
An Aesthetic of Expansiveness: Drawn & Quarterly at 25 Years
Drawn & Quarterly publishes a who’s who of the contemporary comics world....
Escape from a Life Without Waves: Julie Delporte’s “Everywhere Antennas”
Tahneer Oksman on the graphic novel "Everywhere Antennas."...
