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All articles filed in comics

interviewsFebruary 24, 2023February 24, 2023

A Cake Full of Knives: An Interview with Elisa Victoria

Elisa Victoria on child narrators, comics, and post-Franco Spain. Translated by Charlotte Whittle.

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archiveMarch 12, 2015

And when the Mexican comic emerged from the sea…

In the latest of our PEN Atlas Mexican series, Laia Jufresa muses on the fall and rise of Mexican comics

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archiveMay 8, 2014

Who invented the graphic novel?

Ahead of European Literature Night, and the forthcoming British Library exhibition on comics, Paul Gravett writes about the history of the term ‘graphic novel’

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archiveFebruary 11, 2014

Comics, cartoons and controversy

Michele Hutchison reports from the 41st Angoulême Comics Festival, the opportunities for, and resistance to, translation, and how the irreverent form of comics still finds time for plenty of controversy

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