I really wanted to love this book. I've been following the author since she was gingerhaze on Tumblr, I'm also a big fan of auto-bio comics, so you can imagine my excitement when I saw this book! I'm gutted to say the product itself is very disappointing.
- The majority of the book is a collection of doodles, old comics and yearly round-up blog posts when are available online.
- As a result, most of the book reads like a Wikipedia article/ list of achievements.
- The newer comics (towards the end of the book) are visually beautiful and I'm sure they would have moved me if there had been a build-up and narrative around them. However, due to how vapid most of the content is, they read as vague and pretentious.
I really disliked this book and it breaks my heart to say that. There is so much potential in Noelles story. I wish she'd had committed to the autobio format, and actually *told a story* warts and all.
-I would have liked to have seen her amazing first summer in LA, instead of just reading a sentence about it.
-I would have liked for her to have explained more about her loss of faith or the discovery and acceptance of her queer identity. Instead, these topics were very much brushed over and left unexplored...in favour of several pages telling me about awards and jobs she'd gained.
It's such a shame. Maybe she could have created a deeper, richer work of art if she'd just picked one corner of her life and explored it?
The 2 stars are exclusively for the beautiful new art.
If you're interested in autobio comics, I would recommend picking up any comic by Lucy Knisley over this.
I still Love Noelle's work, I hope she returns to this genre one day, with a better approach, because I think she could make something wonderful.
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