…“The world of her poems is populated with ghosts and angels, living dolls and their owners, burglars and assassins. This is a world of flickering streetlights, of trash accumulating in the gutters. It is a worse place, a hard place.”
By Ellen Levitt
…“In the tradition of fascinating graphic history books such as Maus, Persepolis, Laika and many others less well-known, Kent State breathes new life and perspective into a bewildering historical era.”
By Hillary Le
…“Dysfunction is the vehicle Appel uses to draw out the consequences of our failure to face reality – our unwillingness to compromise.”