Dr. Julia Alekseyeva
Creative Work
A selection of comics and illustration work from the last few years. Some of this work is available online in full, but other pieces are only accessible in book chapters and journals. Please contact for full text, full color.
Debut graphic memoir, published by Microcosm in 2017. Winner of VLA Diversity Award. Available everywhere books are sold! See reviews from Tablet, Cleaver, Litteratura (in Russian), the Rumpus, The Post Calvin, Jewish Book Council, and Pen America.
Poster for Just Seeds, #183 in the Celebrate People's History series
Article in Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Narrative Chameleons: Code-Switching Issue 49:1, pp85-87. March 2023. Full text at link.
Chapter in the Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the 21st Century. London: Routledge, pp358-369. March 2023.
Published on The Nib 3/22/2022. Reproduced in Tinyview. Full text at link
Education for All
Illustration for Sept page of 2022 NYC-DSA calendar
Chapter 15 in Artistic Representations of Suffering: Rights, Resistance, Recognition through the Goldstein Center for Human Rights, University of Nebraska-Omaha, published by Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 185-197. October 2021.
Imagine a Better World
Screenprint for Mr. Distro and Pressure Club gallery in Philadelphia. Oct 2020-Dec 2020. Edition of 25. Please contact for additional editions
In World Literature Today. Issue on graphic memoir and non-fiction comics, pp. 54-57. Spring 2020. Full text at link
Published in Sequentials Issue 1.4: Materiality – Drawing on Technologies. May 2020. Full text at link
Logo for CBK-DSA
Designed current logo for Central Brooklyn DSA, 2019 to present
Review of “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922” at the Jewish Museum. Published online in Jewish Currents Oct 24, 2018. Full text at link
Mural for Jabari Brisport in Crown Heights, BK
Created with Paul Swartz and Lena Chandhok for Brisport's district 35 City Council race in Sept 2017. Brisport is currently a NY State Senator
Cheesesteak and Roses
Graphic for Philadelphia DSA, used in promotional materials and merch
In Full Bleed: The Comics and Culture Quarterly, Vol. 3, pp.142-157. Spring 2019. Reprint, originally appeared on The Nib. Original publication date May 25, 2018. Full text at link
In Jewish Currents Art and Activism issue, 3 p., Summer 2018. Full text at link
Ode to the Gilmore Girls
3-page comic included as a part of a fanzine organized by Keren Katz. Link to review by Rob Clough
A book review in The Paper Brigade Vol 2, pp. 57-64, 2018.