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Book Review: Five Graphic Novels That Will Supercharge Your Sequential Existence

May 20, 2021 |

By Karl Stevens, Linnea Sterte, Ben Passmore, Sophie Yanow

| The Austin Chronicle

Penny by Karl Stevens Chronicle Books 152 pp. $19.95 I could gloss this just-released book by saying "The frequent New Yorker cartoonist and longtime sequential artist Karl Stevens provides a biography, equally quotidian and phantasmagorical, of his and his wife's pet cat." But that would be like horking up a hairball that only hints at the rich and fur-infused feast from which such an encapsulation erupted. What Stevens has performed here is, in fact, a sort of miracle.

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Penny

May 04, 2021 |

By Karl Stevens

| chroniclebooks.com

This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny. Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as she recalls her humble beginnings on the streets of New York and waxes poetic about the realities of her sheltered life living in an apartment with her owners. Filled with ennui, angst, and vivid dreams, Penny proves that being a cat is more profound than we once thought.

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INDIE VIEW: 'Floppy #1' and 'Desolation Bay' tell different kinds of histories

Aug 23, 2019 |

By John Seven, Karl Stevens, Robert Sergel

| ComicsBeat

Desolation Bay By Robert Sergel Kilgore Books Portraying the pre-colonial beliefs of the Selk’nam, or Ona, People who lived in parts of Argentina and Chile, in Desolation Bay Cambridge, MA-based cartoonist Robert Sergel doesn’t get picky with context in this brief work that holds devastating meaning beyond its 24 pages.

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