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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
I'm not even sure how this 17 year old reprinting of a story that a guy from Pittsburgh wrote in San Francisco in 1995 landed in the hands of another guy from Pittsburgh, but I recently found it in an old box of mine labeled "oversized books" and I sure am glad I did. in terms of pure plot, not much happens here, but the visuals are stunning and lift this into something special. there's an elegance to it that may take another read or two to really appreciate.
Great short read. Loved how it showed struggles people have funding companionship and their expectations of it.
I appreciated Chris Ware's introduction for setting the historical context of the work, but didn't appreciate it much myself. I enjoyed the artwork but less so the story.
I stumbled across this at the library. The artwork is absolutely beautiful, but I wanted a little more from the story and there were times when I was a little confused. But the art is amazing.
I admire and appreciate this more when I'm reading the extra materials and flipping through the pages than when I'm actually reading it, panel by panel. I get that it's groundbreaking and important, I just didn't connect.
I read this when it first came out, in 1995, as a newsprint standalone when Frank Santoro and his then girlfriend, Katie Glicksberg, who did the colors and handled production, were living in the vaguely defined Tenderloin of San Francisco. They had stacks and stacks of it still in their tiny apartment a year later, when I moved down from Sacramento to take a new job. It says something about the unpredictable path of culture that dozen years later the book had been forgotten then remembered, collected by the publisher Picturebox as a lovingly scanned hardcover (and, later, softcover) volume with an introduction by Chris Ware. It's just a beautiful book, a nostalgia-rich story mixing matters of hard times economics and buddy journey.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Loved loved loved the art; the size, the palette, the sketchiness... that's about all I liked. The looseness of the art makes it hard to identify our main character from panel to panel, and the plot is very thin.