In a press launch despatched on Tuesday, January 9th, 2024, Penn State University’s Graphic Mundi introduced their spring 2024 graphic novel slate. Read on for The Beat’s unique announcement of those extraordinarily thrilling upcoming covers!
Graphic Mundi’s spring 2024 slate
Here’s the Graphic Mundi Spring 2024 slate, quoted from the press launch:
“Leading off the slate in May is The Flavors of Iraq: Impressions of My Vanished Homeland by Feurat Alani and illustrated by Léonard Cohen. Originally revealed in French in 2018 and winner of the Prix Albert Londres, this distinctive graphic novel offers a glimpse of the devastating adjustments inflicted on Iraq as informed by means of 1000 tweets and poignant illustrations. During the summer season of 2016, distraught and disenchanted by how Iraq is described within the media, French-Iraqi journalist Feurat Alani posted over 1000 tweets through which he informed the world about his Iraq.
“While Feurat grew up in Paris, he would return to Iraq all through his childhood, watching the as soon as vibrant tradition crumble beneath the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. As an grownup, he reviews from an Iraq beneath American occupation, and discovers the sounds and silences of struggle.
“The Flavors of Iraq is an intimate and discerning look at a battered country through the perspective of a child growing into a young man. Paired with Léonard Cohen’s superb illustrations, this is a poetic and powerful story of a different Iraq.”
“Later that very same month, Graphic Mundi will launch Traces of Madness: A Graphic Memoir, a graphic portrayal of writer Fernando Balius’s battle with auditory hallucinations, depicted as a monster, and his journey to grasp and cope along with his sickness.
“Illustrated by Mario Pellejer, Traces of Madness tells the story of what it’s like to hear voices in one’s head. Up to 10% of the population experiences auditory hallucinations at some point in their lives. Understanding what it’s like to suffer from this kind of psychosis can be difficult those who haven’t experienced it. This book is an honest first-person account of the author’s experience with a “first break,” the type of therapy he obtained, what it’s like dwelling on this planet as a voice-hearer, how this impacted his relationships with household and associates, and what he discovered about his situation throughout years of analysis and participation in assist teams. As such, Traces of Madness is a roadmap for others with the identical situation. A short appendix offers succinct descriptions of the sensations, ideas, and bodily signs Balius has skilled as a voice-hearer, in addition to how this has affected his private relationships. He closes with some pithy sensible recommendation for these dealing with these challenges.”
“June sees the release of Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty by Sarah Firth. Originally published by Allen and Unwin in Firth’s native Australia, Eventually Everything Connects is a collection of eight autobiographical visual essays that explore the joys and pains of living in a hypercomplex and uncertain world. In her sprawling and colorful style, Sarah Firth pursues some of life’s deepest philosophical questions about happiness, hope, love, sex, death, truth, reality, and the definition of “self.” She weaves collectively a mixture of nice concepts and foolish ones deriving not solely from her personal lived expertise, but additionally from her daydreams, popular culture memes, and the teachings of science, philosophy, and historical past. Her musings finally lead her to contemplate how one can stay extra joyously in a troubling world, and how one can be extra compassionate in the direction of oneself, others, and the planet.
“A scrumptious mixture of each day life, science, philosophy, popular culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a piece of graphic non-fiction that’s comforting, confronting and mind-expanding in equal measure.
“Graphic Mundi closes out the season later that month with And Mankind Created the Gods: A Graphic Novel Adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained by Joseph Béhé, translated by Edward Gauvin. In this adaptation of Pascal Boyer’s basic work exploring these ideas, Religion Explained, artist Joseph Béhé harnesses the ability of comics to offer clear solutions to the fundamental questions on why faith exists and why individuals consider.
“A distinguished scholar, Boyer drew from analysis in cognitive science, anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology to discover why faith exists and why the energy of human beliefs can drive us to be selfless typically and, at different occasions, to be fanatical and illiberal. His erudite e-book is wealthy with perception into the limitless jumble of concepts that inform spiritual beliefs and practices throughout cultures. With detailed illustrative drawings and thoroughly tailored prose, Béhé’s graphic novel brings a brand new perspective to Boyer’s work.
“An eminently accessible approach to the notoriously thorny topics of belief, cognition, humanity and religion, And Mankind Created the Gods is a thought-provoking graphic novel that will further and broaden the conversation with which Boyer’s book engages.”
Arriving spring 2024
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