Etelka Lehoczky

Etelka Lehoczky appears in the following:

Beyond Crabgrass: A Look At America's 'Radical Suburbs'

Friday, April 12, 2019

Amanda Kolson Hurley is well-acquainted with suburbia's many negative stereotypes. But in a new book, she asks us to take a look at what is possible in this realm when the human spirit is at its best.

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'Richard's Valley' Is Worth A Visit — But You Might Not Be Welcome There

Friday, April 05, 2019

Artist Michael DeForge's enigmatic new graphic novel is all about ambivalence — belonging, displacement, escape and return. Also, strangely charming, blobby animals with all-too-human feelings.

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Beyond 'Reefer Madness': Box Brown's Graphic History Tells Story Of A Maligned Plant

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Box Brown has a knack for using comics to illuminate tricky subjects. Now, with Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America, he's turned his attention to one of the touchiest topics today.

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In 'She Could Fly,' A Teen Wrestles With A Host Of Psychological Mysteries

Friday, March 29, 2019

Christopher Cantwell's new graphic novel follows teenaged Luna, who's struggling with mental health issues and finds a kind of hope in the appearance of a mysterious flying woman in the Chicago skies.

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'Giraffes On Horseback Salad' Tells The Lost Story Of Harpo Marx And Salvador Dalí

Sunday, March 24, 2019

When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.

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'Night Witches' Sheds Some Light On Daring Female Flyers

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Garth Ennis' new graphic novel creates a fictional character to flesh out the stories of the real Night Witches, Soviet female pilots who dropped bombs on the Nazis from rickety old biplanes.

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In Wildly Satirical 'Man-Eaters,' Teen Girls Turn Into Ferocious Panthers

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

In the world of writer Chelsea Cain and artist Kate Niemczyk, women are seen as dangerous animals. They bring that world to life with pages and pages of ephemera: fake ads, pamphlets, even a magazine.

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Chronin's Elegant, Minimalist Samurai Adventure Is – Literally – Timeless

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Alison Wilgus' graphic novel imagines a time-traveling history student from 2042 New York who finds herself trapped in Japan in 1864, masquerading as a male warrior as she tries to find a way home.

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In 'Nobody's Looking At You,' The Author Finds Herself Part Of The Story

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The title essay reveals just how far New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm has evolved from the unassuming reporter who might once have reassured herself before an important interview.

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'Eugene V. Debs' Resurrects A Stubborn Question: Why Is Labor History So Boring?

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Turn-of-the-last-century labor leader Eugene V. Debs lead an interesting life — but this graphic biography misses plenty of opportunities to render the most interesting parts of it on the page.

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In 'Proxima Centauri,' A Teenager And His Creator Struggle To Grow Up

Sunday, February 03, 2019

Comics creator Farel Dalrymple returns to the world of his 2014 book The Wrenchies for a story about a teen genius stuck — in more ways than one — on a space station light years away from Earth.

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In 'The New World,' Art Transforms Dystopia Into Camp

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Author Aleš Kot and artist Tradd Moore create a zippy, dizzily excessive vision of a future where the entertainment industry has merged with law enforcement after nuclear catastrophe and war.

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'Fence' Shows That In Sports, Sometimes It's Not About Winning

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

C.S. Pacat's comic about rivalries and relationships in the overheated world of elite high school fencers stars a brash outsider up against a sleek yet surly prodigy at the top of his game.

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Keeping A Famous Theater's Myth Alive In 'Showtime At the Apollo'

Sunday, January 13, 2019

This new graphic adaptation of Ted Fox's history of the Apollo Theater captures countless electrifying performances, but goes easy on the grittier aspects of the fabled theater.

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In 'Trish Trash,' Roller Derby — And Anti-Capitalist Parable — On Mars

Saturday, December 08, 2018

Jessica Abel's comic Trish Trash, Rollergirl of Mars isn't just a sports story and a coming-of-age tale, it's a masterful critique of capitalism that stays engaging despite a few wobbles.

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Surrealism Meets Sci-Fi In 'Parallel Lives'

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Olivier Schrauwen's new graphic novel is cold and rejecting, giddy and uncontrolled, all at the same time. It's semi-autobiographical and loosely sci-fi, set in an unsettlingly minimalist future.

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An Artist Looks Back — Way Back — In 'I Am Young'

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

M. Dean's psychedelic collection of graphic short stories chronicles how music affects the lives of a group of young people in the 1960s and '70s, with masterfully nostalgia-invoking illustrations.

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'Che' Graphic Biography Explores The Myths And Truths Of The Legend

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

While José Hernández and Jon Lee Anderson struggle continually to balance nuanced truth with cartoony distillation, Che remains a remarkable accomplishment.

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Enter 'Sandman': Anniversary Edition Celebrates 30 Years Of Dream-Spinning

Sunday, November 04, 2018

Neil Gaiman's most famous creation first appeared in the comics 30 years ago, but the Sandman is still shaping our dreams — and his stories look and feel just as cool now as they did in 1989.

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'Punks Not Dead,' And Neither Is This Intrepid Granny

Thursday, November 01, 2018

David Barnett and Martin Simmonds' comic about a troubled teen haunted by the ghost of Sid Vicious really gets going when it introduces centenarian (but immortal) ghost-buster Dorothy Culpepper.

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