PanelxPanel #53 - Mamo

PanelxPanel is the Eisner Award-winning digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics. It’s edited by Tiffany Babb and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and features a rotating set of critics, fans, and professionals.

This issue is features Sas Milledge's Mamo, published by Boom!Studios. We interview Milledge about creating the series, accompanied with a series of essays exploring facets of the comic.

This is a true celebration of the medium with every issue, looking at all the elements that make comics an interesting art form and a great place to tell visual stories. This is a magazine that cares about comics.

Some of this issue's contents:

• An interview with Sas Milledge on Mamo.
• Examining power-dynamics in textiles and weaving.
• Responsibility around identity and lineage as characters grow.
• The magical power of travel and laying down roots in new places.
• Projecting magic onto reality, and how we see the world around us.
• Containing and corrupting magic and power in witchcraft.
• A short comic.
• Interview with Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli on their new Image series A Thing Called Truth.
• Final thoughts on Jason Lutes' seminal Berlin.
• How the comic adaption of Alien compares.
• Remembering Dean Hsieh's indie series, Athena.