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A review by saidtheraina
Escape from "Special" by Miss Lasko-Gross
2.0
One more semi-autobiographical graphic novel telling of the author's childhood as an other. I'm still feeling a bit conflicted about this one. On the one hand, I liked the illustration style - instead of the spare drawings I usually enjoy, this is rich illustration. And I found the author's childhood fascinating - she keeps switching schools, seems to be raised by hippies, and has trouble reading. She's constantly torn between hating/disdaining the other kids at school, and wanting to be accepted by them (something I think everyone deals with).
But I wanted more analysis. More narration and exposition. Maybe I'm too much of a modernist, but I wanted to know more about her parents, why she changed schools all those times - I guess a little bit of an adult perspective on her experiences. The story is told in extremely disconnected vignettes which I suspect were released in newspapers or something similar. I think they're roughly chronological, but it was hard to tell. I wasn't even sure how old she was in many of the snatches. I'm intrigued to read the second volume of Lasko-Gross' work to see if her storytelling style changes at all.
I may have to sit on this one for a while.
But I wanted more analysis. More narration and exposition. Maybe I'm too much of a modernist, but I wanted to know more about her parents, why she changed schools all those times - I guess a little bit of an adult perspective on her experiences. The story is told in extremely disconnected vignettes which I suspect were released in newspapers or something similar. I think they're roughly chronological, but it was hard to tell. I wasn't even sure how old she was in many of the snatches. I'm intrigued to read the second volume of Lasko-Gross' work to see if her storytelling style changes at all.
I may have to sit on this one for a while.