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Seattle Cartoonist Puts Sidekicks in Spotlight
Cartoonist Jon Morris’ new book assembles a motley crew of unfortunately named hero helpers
By Gwendolyn Elliott November 7, 2018
This article originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of Seattle magazine.
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Batman’s Robin, The Green Hornet’s Kato—eventually, all sidekicks have their day. And whether they want it or not, their day has arrived with Seattle cartoonist Jon Morris’ recently released The League of Regrettable Sidekicks (Quirk Books, $24.95).
This is the third installment of his “regrettable” comic book series, which began in 2015 with a look at superheroes from comic book history (such as Doctor Hormone and Squirrel Girl) and in 2017 turned to supervillains (remember Robbing Hood?). In Sidekicks, follow along with Dandy, Fatman, Blargo and Gaggy as they face foes with their superhero pals—and wonder how these characters could have ever been lost to time.
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Feeding Ghosts to Free Them
Artist Tessa Hulls creates a revealing graphic novel to help her deal with childhood trauma
Seattle artist Tessa Hulls’ new graphic novel Feeding Ghosts is a deeply stirring narrative of loss, mental illness, and intergenerational trauma. She says that she wrote it to answer this question: What broke my family? Much of the book is about repetition, and how three generations of women in Hulls’ family were emotionally crippled by
