The Nib magazine Secrets issue

Cartoonists spill their secrets on CIA sex dolls, secret fathers, hidden nukes, gender identity, racist tattoos, and more. Featuring a cover by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell and 112 pages of work on the hidden and forbidden — 30 cartoonists reveal it all!

 
 

In this issue:

  • Cartoonists on family secrets, secret crushes, secret wiretapping, and secret societies

  • A home DNA test leads to startling family revelations

  • How to keep a secret online

  • Israel’s not-so-secret nukes

  • Our readers reveal their most jaw-dropping anonymous secrets

  • The cheat codes for life

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Eleri Harris

Eleri Harris

Meg O’Shea

Meg O’Shea

Gerardo Alba

Gerardo Alba

Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

The full lineup for the magazine is:

  • Paper Fictions, Social Realities by Meg O'Shea, who investigates her own history as an international adoptee.

  • It’s All Relatives: How Consumer DNA sites may mean the end of family secrets by Kjerstin Johnson and Alexandra Beguez.

  • Trickster, Traitor, Dummy, Doll: How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with Sex Dolls (but ultimately got screwed) by Triple Dream Comics.

  • Covering Up Hate by Ally Shwed and Gerardo Alba, on the tattoo artists helping people cover up their bigoted past.

  • Slow Release by Asia Bey on learning to move through a history of sexual abuse.

With Dispatches, Strips, and other contributions from:

  • For The Response, family secrets from Edward Flynn, Eleri Harris, Anonymous & Aki Ruiz, and John Leavitt.

  • Secret stats by Maki Naro, Archive editorial cartoons on government wiretapping with writing from Jenny Robb, and in our letters to the editor Katie Wheeler illustrates our readers’ darkest confessions.

  • Dispatches from Rachel Dukes, Jess Ruliffson and Ernesto Barbieri, Apollo Baltazar, Micah Lee and Jamie Noguchi, Miriam Libicki, Max Loh and Sage Coffey.

  • Strips by Joey Alison Sayers, Gemma Correll, Mattie Lubchansky, Brian McFadden, Niccolo Pizarro, Mariah-Rose Marie, Emily Flake, Matt Bors, Julia Bernhard, and E.S. Glenn.

  • With illustrations by Andrew Greenstone and Mark Kaufman.

Matt Bors

Matt Bors

ES Glenn

ES Glenn

Joey Alison Sayers

Joey Alison Sayers

Sage Coffey

Sage Coffey

Asia Bey

Asia Bey

Triple Dream Comics

Alexandra Beguez

Alexandra Beguez