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Two friends reconnect and consider queer identities and how friendships change over time in this graphic novel. I also liked the zine within.

This graphic novel glimpses into one night where old friends re-meet. It's not plotty, but there is ooodles of atmosphere and feelings and awkwardness. And a graphic novel within a graphic novel!

Need to return this to the library, so Stella and I read it after lunch. Well, I Reads it and Stella put up with being bonked in the head with the cover.
Two old friends run into each other and spend some time drinking and catching up. There‘s a lot of disappointment and sad pasts and present denial aboutLBGTQ topics so it left me a bit melancholy, but the painted artwork is gorgeous and the “found” b&w linear graphic novel within is well done.

I‘m delighted to see so many books I‘ve loved have won Lammys this year. Check out this gorgeous, melancholic #graphicnovel by an #LGBTQ #AustralianAuthor.

Cleary and Tim, who knew each other at school in Montreal, meet accidentally & then spend the evening catching up. I was initially confused about bisexual Cleary‘s gender, but that is likely intentional on the part of Tommi Parrish, the Australian genderqueer creator. The brightly painted panels are a bit amorphous & graffiti-like, with cool tricks to show movement. Also, a clever tale-within-a-tale in line drawings. Melancholic, stunning ennui.

Sculptor Henry Moore often made small heads on his bodies. He said, “In the human figure one can express more completely one‘s feelings about the world than in any other way.” Some of Tommi Parrish‘s human figures, as seen above, seem to reflect the precedence of the physical body over intellectual processes.

The majority of this graphic novel is painted in gouache, except for a story-within-the-story that‘s done in simple black ink line drawings. I‘m reminded of David Hockney, art-wise, and Chris Ware, emotion-wise.

I take my heels off sipping Red Bull and cranberry while offering crumbs from my life. I tell him that I‘m an artist and that I don‘t really sleep with men very often.
I take my long brown wig off and show him my shaved head. This gesture of simulated vulnerability usually gets me good tips.

A beautiful graphic novel. Two people who knew each other long ago run into each other and have an awkward encounter.

Yesterday during our annual gift exchange @jmtrivera got me these amazing things. Note that the mr. Darcy candle smells like honey, bourbon, and brooding.