Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Red Rock Baby Candyby Shira Spector
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss. A free association graphic memoir that sends the author's experiences of infertility and her father's cancer through a whirlwind to create a cacophony of words and pictures on the page. Reading a full sentence becomes a Where's Waldo? challenge as you search for the next word scribbled amongst the jumble of images. Kind of poetic, mostly a mess. Not for me. no reviews | add a review
"Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds as one of the most formally inventive comics in the history of the medium. It begins in subtle, tonal shades of black ink, introduces color slowly over the next 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. The irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility, sexuality, choice, and mortality. The drawing is visceral, symbolic, and naturalistic. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life, both the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters. Full-color illustrations throughout."--Amazon. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNone
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5971The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, Comics Collections North American CanadaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |