Graphic Works

Canada Reads: Jeff Lemire

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Jeff Lemire’s Essex County (Collected) Top Shelf Productions, 2010 Here’s what I scribbled in my notebook when I finished reading Tales From the Farm in 2008: The first in Jeff Lemire’s Essex County trilogy feels in some ways like the antithesis to [Craig Thompson’s] Blankets – a very slim volume, with

Canada Reads: Jeff LemireBuried In Print2014-03-10T20:38:55-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles

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Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me Freehand Books, 2010 It’s not just a problem for the curly-headed folks: even with straight hair, there are tangles, knots, and snarls. Everybody can relate to the struggle to make a course smooth once more. And these days, increasingly

Drawing Conclusions: Sarah Leavitt’s TanglesBuried In Print2014-03-10T19:58:12-04:00

Hope Larson’s Mercury (2010)

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Hope Larson's Mercury Simon & Schuster, 2010 I read Hope Larson's Chiggers in 2008; I'd seen it on a list somewhere (Graphic Novels You Can't Miss, that kind of thing) and I think I was expecting a combination of Little Darlings with an Enid Blyton summer adventure story, and the

Hope Larson’s Mercury (2010)Buried In Print2014-03-09T16:05:34-04:00