Enemies of the State

Enemies of the State is a book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. This month we’re talking about Ripples by Hagiwara Rei, published in 2020 by Glacier Bay Books. Ripples focuses on the murky space between life and death, and the cyclical human emotional landscape of grief.

ENEMIES OF THE STATE is a monthly book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. After a long hiatus, this month we’re talking about My Solo Exchange Diary by Nagata Kabi, published in 2018-9 by Seven Seas Manga. Nagata Kabi is the author of a series of autobiographical manga that started with the very successful release of MY LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WITH LONELINESS. A harrowing personal journey to self-acceptance and self-love, Nagata Kabi attempts to show readers that happiness isn’t a place you can get to; rather, it’s a journey you’re always on.

Enemies of the State is a monthly book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. This month we’re talking about Alienation by Inés Estrada, published in 2019 by Fantagraphics. In Alienation, Estrada extrapolates the colonialist, exploitative capitalism of modern society to a world 30 years from now, in a work full of biting satire and humor.

Enemies of the State is a monthly book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. This month we’re talking about The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle, published in 2019 by New York Review Comics. In The Tenderness of Stones, Fayolle offers a vision of family, illness, and grief that is simultaneously lyrical and heartrending.

Episode #7 of Enemies of the State features commentary on Kelsey Wroten’s Cannonball, published by Uncivilized Books in 2019. Cannonball features the unlikely rise of Caroline Bertram, a queer art school graduate who aspires to greatness as a self-proclaimed literary genius. But what happens when greatness doesn’t fix the brokenness inside you? Wroten explores the Millenial experience and the hamster wheel of success through a cast of witty queer characters.

The latest episode of Enemies of the State, a comics book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. In this episode, we discuss Emily Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle, published by Koyama Press in 2019.

We're back from summer break with a new special episode of Enemies of the State - interview edition! In this episode, Alex Hoffman sits down with Cathy G. Johnson to discuss The Breakaways, her new middle grade graphic novel, published by First Second in 2019.

This month's episode of Enemies of the State, a comics book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. In this episode, we discuss This Woman's Work by Julie Delporte, published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2019.

This month's episode of Enemies of the State, a comics book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. In this episode, we discuss The Song of Aglaia by Anne Simon, published by Fantagraphics in 2018.

This month's episode of Enemies of the State, a comics book club podcast featuring a rotating cast of comics critics. In this episode, we discuss Liz Suburbia's Egg Cream #1, published by Czap Books and Silver Sprocket in 2019.