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comics recs
Jul. 8th, 2019 12:59 amI recommend all of these graphic novels / memoirs! These notes are copied over from my Goodreads page
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
by Lucy Knisley
This books is mostly the author's own pregnancy story, but she intermixes the chapters with information about history and feminism in relation to conception and pregnancy. She provides clear and concise explanations and contextualizes her experience (which is my JAM!!). Her feelings about people who choose to be parents and people who choose not to be parents are the same as mine: we should all be supporting each other. I feel like I'd be friends with Ms. Knisley if I ever met her.
Content notes: miscarriage, nausea/vomiting, surgery and hospitalization, doctors gaslighting the author.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
A masterwork. Emotional, realistic, at times heartbreaking. Stunningly beautiful. A book worth returning to, to contemplate the art and the emotions. I loved the spare use of color, the gorgeous page layouts. I love that the people populating this story look like real people. A serious, thoughtful, emotional journey about a teenage lesbian who is in love with someone who is bad for her.
content notes: underage sex is discussed but not depicted. An unwanted pregnancy occurs.
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
by Özge Samanci
Oh I absolutely loved this story about the creator's childhood and young-adulthood. She talks about life in Turkey including some politics and brutality. Her illustrations are whimsical. Sometimes a little bird comments upon the action, and sometimes she talks to Jacques Cousteau via a poster. Samanci studies math in an attempt to please her father, and eventually learns that it's OK to take a different path.
Content notes: physical child abuse (in school). She's attacked once while at college and it is quite scary but she is OK. A minor bus accident. A fraught relationship with her father who is a yelling kind of a person.
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
by Lucy Knisley
This books is mostly the author's own pregnancy story, but she intermixes the chapters with information about history and feminism in relation to conception and pregnancy. She provides clear and concise explanations and contextualizes her experience (which is my JAM!!). Her feelings about people who choose to be parents and people who choose not to be parents are the same as mine: we should all be supporting each other. I feel like I'd be friends with Ms. Knisley if I ever met her.
Content notes: miscarriage, nausea/vomiting, surgery and hospitalization, doctors gaslighting the author.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O'Connell
A masterwork. Emotional, realistic, at times heartbreaking. Stunningly beautiful. A book worth returning to, to contemplate the art and the emotions. I loved the spare use of color, the gorgeous page layouts. I love that the people populating this story look like real people. A serious, thoughtful, emotional journey about a teenage lesbian who is in love with someone who is bad for her.
content notes: underage sex is discussed but not depicted. An unwanted pregnancy occurs.
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
by Özge Samanci
Oh I absolutely loved this story about the creator's childhood and young-adulthood. She talks about life in Turkey including some politics and brutality. Her illustrations are whimsical. Sometimes a little bird comments upon the action, and sometimes she talks to Jacques Cousteau via a poster. Samanci studies math in an attempt to please her father, and eventually learns that it's OK to take a different path.
Content notes: physical child abuse (in school). She's attacked once while at college and it is quite scary but she is OK. A minor bus accident. A fraught relationship with her father who is a yelling kind of a person.
