I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joe Glass American Born Chinese is an

American Born Chinese is an amazing ride

and deeply honest

The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud is a label-defying collection of Kuniko Tsurita's gekiga [that] explores the role of women through numerous shorts in unexpected formats

Citizens wake each morning in unfamiliar bodies

By Eleanor Crewes

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joe Glass American Born Chinese is anBy Mannie Murphy. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 232 pages, Monochrome, 2021. In this graphic novel, what begins as an affectionate reminiscence of the author's 1990s teenage infatuation with the late actor River Phoenix morphs into a remarkable, sprawling account of the city of Portland and state of Oregon's dark history of white nationalism. Mannie Murphy is a gender queer Portland native. This work of graphic nonfiction, told in the style