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Happy Wednesday❤️ #graphicnovelsnews is here. Did you read Eartha? Stunning landscapes, depictions of nature, wrapped in sophisticated storytelling For a thousand years, the unfinished dreams came from the City Across to Echo Fjord to find sanctuary. Emerging from the soil, they took bodily form and wandered the land, gently guided by the fjord folk. But recently they stoped coming, and Eartha wants solve the mystery. Available at Hoopla

My @bookriot Read Harder 2018 book for “a comic written and drawn by the same person”. It was quite the ride!

A unique and dreamy world; memorable and endearing characters; gorgeous art; an adventure quest into a dangerous place—Malkasian gets all the elements right in this moving graphic novel. I felt completely immersed in this fantasy/fable for adults. Muted tones; a hefty 255 oversized pages.

The same-sex relationship between Eartha and Maybelle is unremarked upon within the narrative. I love the way it exists as a simple fact, unrelated to Eartha's quest adventure. In the panel above, they carry out the everyday task of sweeping up shadows left behind by dream beings. (This is a strange and magical world.) #LGBTQ

We followed it through places so narrow that only the moment could get through.

Primus: "Do you know how I got this crown?"
Bouncer: "Isn't it a tiara, Primus?"
Primus: "Not when I'M wearing it."

Eartha: "Why is the news printed on biscuits?"
Cat: "If knowledge brings you agony then you're going to need a little comfort … news and pastry—problem and solution in one buttery bite."