Arlette Hernandez

Arlette Hernandez is an educator, curator, and writer based in New York. She currently works in the Education Department at The Museum of Modern Art where she collaborates with staff across the Museum to develop MoMA’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera.
Shigeru Mizuki’s ‘Tono Monogatari’ Gives Readers Immersive Storytelling with a Personal Touch
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Shigeru Mizuki’s ‘Tono Monogatari’ Gives Readers Immersive Storytelling with a Personal Touch

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 / 22 April 2021

In his adaptation of okai stories, ‘Tono Monogatari’, manga artist and historian Shigeru Mizuki is at once narrator, illustrator, reader, and participant, explaining the stories’ connections to Japanese legend and belief.

The Strange and the Disturbingly Familiar in Sci-Fi Graphic Fiction, ‘Peepers’
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The Strange and the Disturbingly Familiar in Sci-Fi Graphic Fiction, ‘Peepers’

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 / 15 March 2021

Even the scenery in sci-fi graphic fiction ‘Peepers’ looks like the lucid dreams of a Fauvist painter on acid.

Michel Rabagliati’s ‘Paul at Home’ Misses Connections
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Michel Rabagliati’s ‘Paul at Home’ Misses Connections

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 / 16 November 2020

Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical graphic fiction, Paul at Home, is brimming with moments of heartbreak, but through its humor and honesty, it also speaks to our sense of hope.