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meghan111's review against another edition
3.0
I wish this was more ambitious. The artwork and layout really worked for me, but it was less than 100 pages, and ended up seeming overly impressionistic - scenes, but not enough follow through.
nenya_kanadka's review against another edition
3.0
This was okay, though it didn't rock my world. I think I expected the narrator to be, herself, a redhead, rather than being into redheaded women. (She does dye her hair at various points, which worked, but I'd incorrectly assumed she had hair like me all along based on the title.
The parts of the story about her figuring out she was into women, and her relationship with her parents, worked for me a lot more than the magic and witches, which aren't an experience I share. The plot was less a plot and more tiny snippets of a life, which is fine, but I would probably enjoy spending longer with the characters at each point in her life. And the art didn't work for me at ALL.
Glad the book exists, am probably not the target audience, despite being a bisexual woman who came of age in the nineties and who has long red hair. :P
The parts of the story about her figuring out she was into women, and her relationship with her parents, worked for me a lot more than the magic and witches, which aren't an experience I share. The plot was less a plot and more tiny snippets of a life, which is fine, but I would probably enjoy spending longer with the characters at each point in her life. And the art didn't work for me at ALL.
Glad the book exists, am probably not the target audience, despite being a bisexual woman who came of age in the nineties and who has long red hair. :P
lesbrary's review against another edition
4.0
Read this during the readathon, and although it wasn't as witchy/Octobery as I was expecting, I still really enjoyed it! I liked the discussion of sexuality and celibacy, and--of course--the Buffy references. The art style is beautiful. I love pencil crayon-style graphic novels.
saidtheraina's review against another edition
4.0
When I was a kid, I remember playing "house" with my friends. As I got older, this game started consisting mostly of taking turns describing how we wanted to look as our new playtime characters. I don't remember doing much beyond monologuing a few paragraphs of that.
Fitzgerald's slim GN memoir is through the lens of her personal feelings towards the titular physical attribute. It starts with a scene of her childhood, consuming media depicting such a characteristic (va-va-voom). Then, she shows herself choosing it for a D&D character, which I imagine to be her version of my game of House.
As she gets older, themes of body image and perception of self meld into reflections on sexual identity. It's a wonderful example and depiction of the Questioning part of the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ acronym. Extra points for giving a gasp of air to bisexual and asexual identities. It has a lot of thematic similarity to MariNaomi's [b: Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22|8433530|Kiss and Tell A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22|MariNaomi|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327956389s/8433530.jpg|13296987], but leans even harder on the reflective end of things.
On top of packing a LOT of thematic and reflective content into 95 pages, it's a gorgeous piece. Fitzgerald uses a variety of drawing implements, layouts, and a muted color palette to create a striking piece of art. She even includes a page of works referenced!
Might need to own this one.
Read with:
[b: Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel|18693805|Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel A Graphic Novel|Anya Ulinich|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1400890864s/18693805.jpg|26542355]
Anything by [a: Laura Lee Gulledge|4215822|Laura Lee Gulledge|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484918966p2/4215822.jpg]
[b: Photobooth: A Biography|19537419|Photobooth A Biography|Meags Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1401470111s/19537419.jpg|27663647], obviously
Fitzgerald's slim GN memoir is through the lens of her personal feelings towards the titular physical attribute. It starts with a scene of her childhood, consuming media depicting such a characteristic (va-va-voom). Then, she shows herself choosing it for a D&D character, which I imagine to be her version of my game of House.
As she gets older, themes of body image and perception of self meld into reflections on sexual identity. It's a wonderful example and depiction of the Questioning part of the LGBTQQIP2SAA+ acronym. Extra points for giving a gasp of air to bisexual and asexual identities. It has a lot of thematic similarity to MariNaomi's [b: Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22|8433530|Kiss and Tell A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22|MariNaomi|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327956389s/8433530.jpg|13296987], but leans even harder on the reflective end of things.
On top of packing a LOT of thematic and reflective content into 95 pages, it's a gorgeous piece. Fitzgerald uses a variety of drawing implements, layouts, and a muted color palette to create a striking piece of art. She even includes a page of works referenced!
Might need to own this one.
Read with:
[b: Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel|18693805|Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel A Graphic Novel|Anya Ulinich|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1400890864s/18693805.jpg|26542355]
Anything by [a: Laura Lee Gulledge|4215822|Laura Lee Gulledge|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484918966p2/4215822.jpg]
[b: Photobooth: A Biography|19537419|Photobooth A Biography|Meags Fitzgerald|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1401470111s/19537419.jpg|27663647], obviously
ivanssister's review against another edition
3.0
This graphic novel is a real quick read. in it Fitzgerald tells the story of her journey to realizing who she is and what her sexuality.
I picked this up along with Photobooth after I heard Meags on Stop Podcasting Yourself.
I picked this up along with Photobooth after I heard Meags on Stop Podcasting Yourself.
tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Felt more like a graphic diary than a coherent memoir. Fitzgerald dips a toe into a lakeful of interesting topics but never wades deeper into any of them. What there is isn't bad, but I put it down thinking, OK, and...?
frmeden's review against another edition
3.0
a gorgeous graphic novel about coming of age/coming out, with a queer redhead protagonist who loves labyrinth, sabrina the teenage witch and dungeons and dragons? i feel seen!