Fábio Moon

Absolutely love this graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s short story! Moon & Ba were definitely the perfect choice of illustrators, since their artistic style is anchored in reality but with serious overtones of whimsy that capture the careful balance between reality and strange happenings in this story. Gaiman’s text presents the adventure of two young boys going to a house party as being relatively straightforward - they go, they talk to girls, and the girls are weird. Obviously show more the story can be interpreted literally, in that the party really is full of alien tourists in the form of beautiful girls, but speaking from the perspective of a girl we are absolutely as strange as the story portrays without actually being creatures from another planet. I’ve had far stranger conversations with boys - whether that strangeness comes from a fundamental difference in how boys and girls communicate or whether I just have weird topics of conversation is a whole other matter. The art style seems to very much support this theory that our hapless narrator just doesn’t quite get girls, so he sees their conversations as being otherworldly and above his comprehension, as all of the girls look very human (even for all their beauty). And yet, the final scene, where the boys exit the party post-haste due to some kind of disagreement with Stella, brings us back to the idea that maybe these girls are not just girls - having the fires of a thousand suns in their eyes (etc) is a typical description of extreme anger, but I get the distinct impression that Stella could be much more than what she seems. Better run for your lives, boys! show less

[b: Daytripper|8477057|Daytripper|Fábio Moon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327876816s/8477057.jpg|13341979] is one of those books that is very difficult to define. It's a book that resists the hyperbole that is often cast upon such stories. Calling it 'life-changing' or in any way 'transformative' would be doing it a disservice. It's not necessarily the sort of feel-good book that you leave like a happy film, but something else. It's something that presents its philosophy bluntly, at show more times almost cruelly, but then falls into a rhythm that proves difficult to resist. By the end of the book you do feel different, perhaps as calm and satisfied as the protagonist, perhaps not. But life is like that, isn't it?

[b: Daytripper|8477057|Daytripper|Fábio Moon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327876816s/8477057.jpg|13341979] is a collection of stories that comrpise the life of Bras, an obituary writer who lives in the shadow of his father's success. His dad, indeed, is one of the best known writers in Brazil - a cultural and artistic landmark of the country. How can Bras, writing now only of people's deaths, measure up? Bras has lived in his father's shadow - but when does he truly begin living? With the death of his father? With the day he was born? His first kiss? With the tragedies that awakened him? At what point does life begin meaning something, at what moment? Can it all be summed up in something like an obituary, or is it something different? Is fantasy where we escape, or is it a route by which to navigate our lives? These questions and more are what comprise [b: Daytripper|8477057|Daytripper|Fábio Moon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327876816s/8477057.jpg|13341979], and partially what makes it so difficult to sum up and define.

The artwork is glorious, fluid and dreamlike. Like the ocean so central to the story it ebbs and flows - at once realistic, and then in the next breath and panel something ethereal. The whole of it is so gorgeous, and something that could only really exist within the graphic novel medium. I readily recommend this book to anyone and everyone, and truly hope most of my followers here on GoodReads will pick it up. It is well worth the read, and all the contemplative musings that reading it will raise up within you. show less

Daytripper is the story of a day in the life of Brás de Olivias Dominguez - or rather several different days in his life, each ending the same way, with his death. Brás spends his days weaving engaging stories from the details of people's lives in his obituaries, and the stories do the same to the many possible ends Brás could have. Since the variations are caused by little everyday things and we go back and forth in time over Brás's possible pasts and futures, those things that are show more little in one story can in another one become something life-changing for the characters. Not only it is a highly intense story, the art is passionate and the coloration lush - this is one that I will reread more than once. show less

I had not read the story this graphic novel is based on but even without Gaiman's name on it, I would have probably recognized it as one of his.

Two boys decide to go to a party, the address of which they do not exactly have. So when they find a party, they go in. One of the boys is a ladies man, the other one is shy and cannot speak to girls. And the girls he meets at the party do not exactly help - telling stories of impossible places.

There is more than one way to read the story - you can show more choose to see it as a fantasy story (which I prefer) or you can think of it as the way a boy sees women. Or something in between.

It is a short and sweet story about that age when everyone wishes to be just a bit older. And if you read it as a fantasy story, it is also a story about universes, changes and longing. show less