Megan Kelso
Author of Squirrel Mother
About the Author
Image credit: photo by Guillaume Paumier
Works by Megan Kelso
Scheherazade: Stories of Love, Treachery, Mothers, and Monsters (2004) — Editor; Contributor — 54 copies
Artichoke Tales (Chapter 3) 2 copies
Artichoke Tales (Chapter 2) 2 copies
Girlhero #1 1 copy
Watergate Sue 1 copy
Unspoken: Bits and Pieces 1 copy
Girlhero (issues number 4-5) 1 copy
Artichoke Tales Chapter 1 1 copy
Associated Works
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 1: From Sherlock Holmes to A Clockwork Orange to Jo Nesbø (2017) — Illustrator — 34 copies
Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Strumpet: The Dress-Up Issue (#1) — Contributor — 2 copies
Action Girl Comics #1-19 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1968
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Evergreen State College
- Occupations
- Comics artist and illustrator
- Awards and honors
- Ignatz Award (Outstanding Artist, 2002)
- Short biography
- Megan Kelso was born in 1968 in Seattle, Washington where she lived on and off for 33 years. Then she moved to Brooklyn, New York with her husband. After 6.5 years and 7 very moist summers in New York, they moved back to Seattle. She's been drawing comics for 18 years.
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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through Edelweiss.
I picked this up because I really like the art, but that's pretty much all I enjoyed.
I just didn't understand the stories, and trust me, I've read some convoluted things in my life, but these all seem like inside jokes or personal stories "you just had to be there" to really make heads or tails of.
It's a shame, too, because there are some pretty adorable illustrations In here.
I just didn't understand the stories, and trust me, I've read some convoluted things in my life, but these all seem like inside jokes or personal stories "you just had to be there" to really make heads or tails of.
It's a shame, too, because there are some pretty adorable illustrations In here.
This was an epic tale covering the life of Brigitte, her mother and how the Civil War that tore their land apart started.
The cute factor of the people may make you think this book is for children but it's definitely an adult book. I also had trouble differentiating characters from time to time.
Brigitte learns her countries history and tries to make sense of her decision to follow someone from the North at the same timer. Her mother also tried to make things work with someone from the North. It's interesting to see the parallels between Brigitte and her mother and Brigitte's grandmother's anger puts an interesting spin on things.… (more)
The cute factor of the people may make you think this book is for children but it's definitely an adult book. I also had trouble differentiating characters from time to time.
Brigitte learns her countries history and tries to make sense of her decision to follow someone from the North at the same timer. Her mother also tried to make things work with someone from the North. It's interesting to see the parallels between Brigitte and her mother and Brigitte's grandmother's anger puts an interesting spin on things.… (more)
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- Works
- 15
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 396
- Popularity
- #61,231
- Rating
- 3.1
- Reviews
- 21
- ISBNs
- 10
- Favorited
- 2
Watergate Sue
A generational family drama about mothers and daughters, jumping from the present day where a grandchild is about to be born to a woman not yet born in the flashbacks where her mother is obsessing over the Watergate scandal. So?
Cats in Service
A family inherits the cats the mother's sister has trained to be household servants. Creepy but pointless.
The Egg Room
More meandering family drama. Meh.
Korin Voss
Set in 1947, a single mother's daughters are peripheral to the shambles which are her career and love life. But at least she tries to be nicer to Black people???
The Golden Lasso
A young girl is obsessed with rock climbing and a cute older boy. The most engaging story in the book, it wobbles around in a typical coming-of-age manner but mostly works as it takes a dark turn.
FOR REFERENCE:
Contents:
• Watergate Sue / Originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, April to September, 2007.
• Cats in Service / Originally published as a minicomic of the same name in 2014.
• The Egg Room
• Korin Voss / An expanded version of a story previously entitled "The Good Witch," which originally appeared as a one-page comic on the back cover of Strumpet #1 and as a nine-page story in Runner Runner (Free Comic Book Day 2012).
• The Golden Lasso / An expanded version of a 14-page story that previously appeared in the 2011 minicomic Acorns & Pebbles.… (more)