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So you want my arts job: Graphic Novelist

Yawuru artist, creator and graphic novel author Brenton McKenna was among Australia's first published Indigenous graphic novel authors.

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Why queer comic books are the next target of the culture wars

Queer graphic novels are the latest target of moral panic whipped up in the current culture war.

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Small presses shine in Stella shortlist

Six ‘culture shifting’ books have been shortlisted for the $60,000 Stella Prize, which recognises the best books by Australian women.

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8 Australian graphic novels everyone should read

Whether you're new to comic books or looking to expand your reading list beyond the Big Two (Marvel and DC),…

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Discovery of WW1 graphic novel might re-write history books

A German cartoonist’s account of life in an Australian WWI internment camp is being claimed as the world’s first-known autobiographical…

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Book review: Big Beautiful Female Theory, Eloise Grills

Grills critiques the fetishisation of aesthetic counterpoints by highlighting the ‘to-be-looked-at-ness’ of her own personal journey.

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Book review: Our Members Be Unlimited, Sam Wallman

In this new kind of graphic novel, Sam Wallman fearlessly celebrates unions and their place in our history and our…

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The many Australias in our graphic novels

Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year.…