Not Funny Ha-Ha Kiddos Hanawalt strikes the perfect balance

Hanawalt strikes the perfect balance of drawing the gorgeous and the repugnant

The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East

It’s a deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet’s romantic meta narrative focusing on the minor players

"I’ve always been entranced at the huge variety of mushrooms I see on my walks and this book makes me want to jump up and go look for them

scratchy inked pages of their minicomics to the hazy imperfection of pencil on vellum

Not Funny Ha-Ha Kiddos Hanawalt strikes the perfect balanceA Handbook for Something Hard. By Leah Hayes. Fantagraphics Books, 2015. 148 pages, hardback, full colour. This nonjudgmental, even humorous, graphic work of nonfiction follows two women through the abortion process. Not Funny Ha Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural, family, and financial backgrounds who go through two different abortions (medical and surgical). It follows them