Kristen Radtke Archive

Visualizing Loneliness in Kristen Radtke’s Seek You

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Using the strengths of the graphic medium, Kristen Radtke conveys how loneliness feels by portraying what it looks like.

Imagine Wanting Only This and the Subjectivity of Memoir

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Beginning with her childhood in Wisconsin and threading through her years in Chicago, Iowa, Kentucky, and numerous cities abroad, Kristen Radtke’s 2017 graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This chronicles her enduring obsession with ruins and the significance people find in them. Instigated by the premature death of her uncle,