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What It Is by Lynda Barry
5.0
I've been waiting for this book for years! Hooray for D&Q, a publisher who truly appreciates the rare gem they have. I've attended Lynda's workshop twice, and now I can dip into it anytime I wish, thanks to this juicy, colorful paper version. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a book to keep nearby, dip into it when you need refreshment, space out on the pretty collages, try the various exercises, to peruse over & over again.
This is a book to keep nearby, dip into it when you need refreshment, space out on the pretty collages, try the various exercises, to peruse over & over again.
Clown Girl by Monica Drake
2.0
What an interesting experience to read a book the whole way through and not once, ever, did I like —or even care about— the protagonist. I didn't care if she got a happy ending, and, frankly, would have preferred a catastophic demise. I kept feeling like the book would deliver a good sucker punch, but it just kept loitering in the zone between odd and annoying. I couldn't even properly hate it. And this is a book about a CLOWN.
Weird.
Weird.
Need More Love by Aline Kominsky-Crumb
4.0
It's big, bold, and fancy, like the author. It's also radically honest, insanely hyperbolic, and dripping with obnoxious, self-congratulatory/-loathing Boomerisms.
It's bad enough to hear someone born in the fifties bragging about all the free love and cultural upheaval they enjoyed, but to follow it with criticism of the following generation's apathy is more blind selfishness than I can stand.
That vented, I must confess that I played a lot of hooky to spend time with this juicy chunk of graphic memoir. I have much more respect and appreciation for her body of work. And as someone who has been drawing autobiographical comics since I was a kid, I feel I owe her some props.
It's bad enough to hear someone born in the fifties bragging about all the free love and cultural upheaval they enjoyed, but to follow it with criticism of the following generation's apathy is more blind selfishness than I can stand.
That vented, I must confess that I played a lot of hooky to spend time with this juicy chunk of graphic memoir. I have much more respect and appreciation for her body of work. And as someone who has been drawing autobiographical comics since I was a kid, I feel I owe her some props.
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
4.0
A panoply of lingo and lore from the Lady herself. Written as bluntly as was possible at the time, I'd guess. But every anecdote alluded to more, and I wish it could have been so!
The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left by Erin Ergenbright, Thisbe Nissen
5.0
Such a fun idea, and so fancy, too. I love the fancy collages, and end up re-reading about half the stories every time I open the book to try one of the recipes. The cottage cheese pancakes are really tasty. Too bad the relationship didn't work out.
Ramble Right by Amber Gayle
5.0
Like reading the private diary of someone you met while backpacking around Europe. I'm torn between smirking at the innocent romanticism and sighing with longing to live in such an enchanted youthfulness again.