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t we gravitate to memoir whether young or old cartoonists love to include themselves in their comics young cartoonists readily admit they re still figuring it out older cartoonists readily offer that they ve learned a thing or two you can create a memoir that results in a funny story or you can dig deeper tell other stories and connect them suggests joe you can contextualize your life find patterns get a deeper perspective alright i hope this all adds up to your visiting the comics grinder youtube channel all views likes and comments are greatly appreciated we strongly encourage you to engage directly with the comics grinder youtube channel and leave a like and comment every bit helps make the channel stronger directing algorithms to do the right thing and help spread the word cartoonists just like any other creative folk deeply want to spread the word with that in mind joe encourages you to check out when we were trekkies for free you can read posts over at joe s substack here so enjoy the video and look for the audio podcasts at various platforms the video goes up first and the audio will go up later and live long and prosper share this print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like this like loading leave a comment filed under comics interviews tagged as comics entertainment graphic novels media pop culture publishing sci fi june 22 2026 7 25 pm love and desire in the promised land comics review love and desire in the promised land the private lives of israelis and palestinians writer salome parent rachi artist zac deloupy translation jenna allen seattle fantagraphics 2026 160pp 24 95 review by paul buhle comics reader please suspend your immediate thoughts even or especially the most horrible and apocalyptic ones about the current wars in the middle east imagine yourself for a moment to be a young person in israel or the west bank striving to live out a life that despite everything remains in some ways near universal for a young person almost anywhere that is sexual desires and active encounters often subrosa and undisclosed to surrounding older generations parent rachi is a young french journalist a sometime correspondent journalist writing from israel but also a creator of podcasts and collaborator on documentaries related to sexual practices deloupy born in 1968 and twenty years younger is a free lance illustrator who earned some much deserved fame by working under marjane satrapi on the 2023 anthology femme vie liberté to say that the art here is wonderfully expressive would be a gross underestimate the street scenes the bedroom scenes the close ups of bars and even prison cells are captured in subdued tones perhaps to bring a quiet clarity to the conflicts on hand or only implied love and desire appeals to this reviewer not only as a brilliantly drawn comic but as an exercise in interviews not example life stories but not far away the stories of sexual encounters that reveal much more i feel the need to add that i have guided oral history projects and conducted hundreds of interviews if mostly with old people and generally not concerning their sex lives still the personal narrative is the key to the interview they are wonderful here in their candor and their careful descriptions in their introduction to the book parent rachdi and deloupy stress that the book was finished in late 2023 and if so much has happened much of it dreadful almost beyond words so much still remains an important preface by vincent lemire renowned scholar of the region and co author with chistophe gaultier of the history of jerusalem offers transgressing the conflict the same message everything is messy perhaps nothing more than breaking old bonds yet some things remain hopeful obviously including the wish and the willingness to transgress in order to find love so we have the writer herself on the streets in israel a normal workday young people crossing busy streets and talking to the illustrator as they embark on the saga of lana 34 in tel aviv she s a palestinian whose best friend jewish signed her up for a dating life p 6 she met a young man on the beach and confessed her identity on their third date not a peacenik her new lover was both too distant to understand her complicated self identity and too distant from her community but they struggle with the complications and things work out somehow there s a happy jewish palestinian ending here that i leave for the reader to discover in the meantime the book transitions to a famous couple story with a handsome male star of several israeli film and television series a renowned singer to boot with his partner the very first arab presenter in hebrew on israeli television critical of hamas but also of the israeli pm she has enemies galore and also admirers everywhere their families after serious doubts accept the celebrity pair and so apparently does eighty percent of the public expressing opinions the twenty percent remain bitterly opposed for their various tribal reasons but life goes on not everything is nearly that pleasant the number of israeli palestinian marriages remains astonishingly few and sexual encounters must surely add up to thousands unrecorded often one partner is a french national confirming perhaps our old stereotype of the romantic french collective willful ignorance about sex along with their various issues and problems of conception cloud the lives of many young people especially those in deeply religious communities gay sex among the haredim the strictly orthodox jewish community seems at first glance almost unthinkable but of course it happens anyway our artist and writer follow documentary photo journalist tanya habjouqa through ramallah and by asking questions she finds a lot of intense personal conflict more than a few women have two lives one on the street and another at night including the bedroom the good behavior of women palestinian or israeli is often policed whenever they appear in public relative open mindedness is not likely enough for a gay man in gaza where such real relationships prove daunting the easiest thing to do is to leave as another of her interview subjects a man married to a palestinian widow of the war manages to do but only by leaving for jordan he laments not without reason there will always be new wars p 97 and hopes that his adopted children can at least avoid the worst of them likewise an intermarried couple seen here gives up solving their problems by moving to france while another couple experiencing their child born in a tel aviv hospital with a staff both jewish and palestinian retains hopes we can hope that they are still there making a life under difficult circumstances the book nearly closes on a special part of the israeli jewish population russian immigrants now more than a million adding up to an amazing fifteen percent a third live outside the religious definitions of jewishness according to the standards of the rabbinate they remain largely secular as they were in the old soviet union hoping for a better life by emigrating a russian woman has married a nigerian and like many other mixed couples escape difficulties by making the marriage official in cyprus as a painter she struggles with both the pervasive israeli stereotype that women from russia are probably prostitutes and racial stereotypes about people of color as common in israel as anywhere in europe or the us the last stories in love and desire in the promised land come back to the difficulties of crossing lines that is the odds against mutual understanding between populations that have been kept apart or kept themselves apart for any reason whether history religion or exercise of military power the intensity of the middle eastern conflicts creates yet more barriers can engagement of one another among young people obviously including sex of any type smooth out the roughest parts and point toward something better perhaps we do not know yet let us hope that time is not running out it is no exaggeration to say that with love and desire in the promised land the splendid work of salomé parent rachdi and zae deloupy have made a contribution to every reader fantagraphics with its volumes by joe sacco and others continues to open new worlds for comic art and ways for the mostly young readership to grapple with the troubled societies where they find themselves paul buhle is an american historian who is retired senior lecturer at brown university author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the united states and the caribbean studies of popular culture and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes he is the authorized biographer of c l r james share this print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like this like loading leave a comment filed under comics comics reviews paul buhle tagged as comics entertainment history media paul buhle pop culture publishing june 17 2026 12 00 pm katie skelly interview on comics and heaven katie skelly an award winning cartoonist and simply one of the best comic artists today has a new graphic novel heaven published by fantagraphics we chat about her new book the inner workings of it all influences storytelling observations fun stuff and serious stuff basically an all around great conversation the timing on this spotlight is good too as katie presents bad girl tarot a beautiful tarot card deck she has created all her drawings and design work currently on a kickstarter campaign that runs through july 15 2026 katie skelly heaven is at its core a good old fashioned ghost story with a group of high school girls and a haunted mansion on a hill well not so much a mansion in this case as a super weird strip club that goes in and out of existence for more details just read my review and i highly recommend that you get your copy so you can see for yourself there are endless inventive details to savor starting with those giant upside down neon heels lighting up the desert night skies i like to focus on the creative process and that s why it s great to call attention to both heaven and bad girl tarot for me it s all part of something bigger in this interview i ask katie to share about what she s thinking about as she creates work everyone will answer in a different way katie has some very specific passions she can draw inspiration from as well as a very curious mind open to whatever random element that might cross her path a couple of deep wells of inspiration are horror genre films and manga if you d like some insight into the mind of one of our great comic artists then i invite you to check out our conversation at a crossroads heaven is the fourth and latest graphic novel by katie skelly published by fantagraphics it is only now with hindsight viewing all four books together that we have the luxury of saying they all fit in so well with each other i suggest as much to katie and she agrees she states well sure my pretty vampire and maids find their way into heaven and the agency finds it way into all of them one way or another and thus we begin our chat it s important to realize that each book is its own world of hard work and countless problem solving years in the making so yes it s a super big deal to have all of this work look so cool a beautiful seemingly seamless result and with that i set you lose to enjoy the above video or audio at various platforms the video will go up first and is ready as i write this the audio will load up shortly after i make a few more tweaks anyway feel free to comment like and subscribe every bit of engagement from you helps and just a few more words a few more things to say about the bad girl tarot campaign at kickstarter thru july 15 2026 bad girl tarot ii is a complete 78 card tarot deck with guidebook created and designed by me cartoonist katie skelly the goal of this kickstarter is to raise funds for the first printing of the deck working towards fulfillment in october 2026 i m excited to offer backers a special price on bad girl tarot ii plus rewards like original art stickers and more as thanks for supporting the project the team katie skelly that s me i am an award winning comic book artist with four graphic novels from fantagraphics plus the creator of the original bad girl tarot and bad girl oracle find more of my work on my website and on instagram chelsey caswell a professional tarot reader with both regular private clients and popular sessions at spots like nyc s soho house find more about her on her website share this print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on x opens in new window x like this like loading leave a comment filed under comics interviews tagged as art comics entertainment fantagraphics graphic novels media pop culture publishing june 16 2026 1 02 pm heaven by katie skelly graphic novel review heaven katie skelly fantagraphics 2026 100pp 19 99 on sale july 7th pre order now katie skelly s new graphic novel features a cast of cool girls down a foreboding path these girls are still in high school and while full of attitude are short on experience they can t help themselves can t resist being attracted to something sinister which seems just out of reach and yet beckons them to draw closer skelly once again delivers a work of comics that is an intoxicating blend of sex positive content and horror genre the kids are alright but restless this is the fourth skelly graphic novel published by fantagraphics my pretty vampire 2017 the agency 2018 maids 2020 and now heaven each title is different from the next in refreshing ways and each shares a spirited sense of experimentation skelly draws from various sources looking for imagery that stands out in terms of style and energy the idea is to have an image act as a jumping off point work its magic and keep the narrative moving forward a lot of that vibe will come from art house films and ass...