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A review by caseythecanadianlesbrarian
On Loving Women by Diane Obomsawin
4.0
On Loving Women by Québécois animator, graphic artist, and painter Diane Obomsawin is another really awesome book that I’m not sure I would have heard about if it hadn’t been sent to me to review! So I am super happy to be able to share it with you all. On Loving Women is a pretty quick read, and seemingly simple. It’s a collection of comics about coming-out—specifically, Obomsawin’s friends and lovers. It’s originally in French, and was translated by Helge Dascher. While this book is simple, I’d like to unpack this simplicity a little bit and see what we can come up with.
The stories are brief, and at first, I was finding it a bit hard to differentiate between stories—the linguistic style changes a bit, but the graphic one doesn’t. Maybe it’s because I read it so fast—because it’s graphic, and pictures are so much faster to digest than words. But I also think that plain and simple I read it quickly because it’s really good and I didn’t want to put it down! I’m also just not as attuned to visual art, so there may have been differences I just wasn’t picking up on. In the end, though, it was kind of clever that the stories bled together, as a group of friends’ coming-out stories tend to do over the years of telling and re-telling them....
See the rest of my review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/seemingly-simple-graphic-stories-about-messy-coming-out-stories-a-review-of-diane-obomsawins-on-loving-women/
The stories are brief, and at first, I was finding it a bit hard to differentiate between stories—the linguistic style changes a bit, but the graphic one doesn’t. Maybe it’s because I read it so fast—because it’s graphic, and pictures are so much faster to digest than words. But I also think that plain and simple I read it quickly because it’s really good and I didn’t want to put it down! I’m also just not as attuned to visual art, so there may have been differences I just wasn’t picking up on. In the end, though, it was kind of clever that the stories bled together, as a group of friends’ coming-out stories tend to do over the years of telling and re-telling them....
See the rest of my review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/seemingly-simple-graphic-stories-about-messy-coming-out-stories-a-review-of-diane-obomsawins-on-loving-women/