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Невероятно красивый комикс. Довольно занимательная история.
Сам комикс тоже заставляет задуматься над многими вещами.
Супер красивая книга!
Супер красивая книга!
А у вас было когда-нибудь такое, что вы встречали старого друга спустя много лет, и оба пытались вести себя так, как будто в ваших отношениях ничего не изменилось?
У меня была такая встреча, максимально неловкая и разочаровывающая.
Но, пожалуй, у героев комикса «Как мы лжем«, Клири и Тима, все вышло ещё более неловко. В попытке вернуть былое чувство близости, они выпивают и заводят разговоры на самые откровенные темы… И в итоге вытаскивают из шкафа таких здоровенных скелетов, что и сами не рады.
Странный комикс, который было сложно читать из-за своеобразного стиля: для меня маленькие головы и большие конечности выглядят максимально отталкивающе. А когда эти конечности ещё и в постельных сценах участвуют..
Но, по какой-то причине, эта простая история не выходила у меня из головы несколько дней. Напряжение и неловкость между героями передается и читателю. И ты прокручиваешь слова в голове, пытаясь представить, что бы сказал, сделал, что бы почувствовал ты.
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My first experience with Parrish’s work. This is a beautifully drawn and painted story, beautifully produced by Fantagraphics, of two old friends who haven’t seen each other for some time. They spend the evening drinking in the process of catching up, moving from bar to bar, just talking, which involves relating stories of failed relationships, mostly. The man is gay, or possibly bi-, and he is engaged to be married (to a woman), but he seems pretty clearly closeted. They don’t seem to know, rea My first experience with Parrish’s work. This is a beautifully drawn and painted story, beautifully produced by Fantagraphics, of two old friends who haven’t seen each other for some time. They spend the evening drinking in the process of catching up, moving from bar to bar, just talking, which involves relating stories of failed relationships, mostly. The man is gay, or possibly bi-, and he is engaged to be married (to a woman), but he seems pretty clearly closeted. They don’t seem to know, really. It feels like a kind of rootless twenty-something lost searcher story, where in the middle of things is their long, complicated friendship. They were best friends; could they have ever been lovers? What is the lie and how are they now spinning it to and with each other?
No, it is not about how your friends make you come out to the bar to listen to their problems when you’d rather be home reading a book.
Well, maybe a little.
But it’s also about time and friendship and honesty and pain and self-respect and how near-impossible it can be to understand yourself, much less other people.
(the guy in question is sobbing in the toilet while this conversation is taking place.)
No, it is not about how your friends make you come out to the bar to listen to their problems when you’d rather be home reading a book.
Well, maybe a little.
But it’s also about time and friendship and honesty and pain and self-respect and how near-impossible it can be to understand yourself, much less other people.
This is spectacularly beautiful and heartbreaking. There are two stories contained within: two old friends meet by chance and end up drinking together, revealing how much they’ve changed and what’s stayed the same. Interspersed with this are pages from a graphic novel one of the characters finds, which tells in black and white line drawings the story of someone who performs in drag at a strip club and their experience dating a client.
There it was in the library’s new release section, the style and energy of the cover catching my eye. I’m always up for a good graphic novel, and so, well, I gave it a whirl.
It was, hmmm. Not a sweeping narrative, nothing grand scale at all. Nor was the art style highly refined and technical.
But it worked. As a narrative within a narrative, it explores questions of identity, misunderstanding, and human sexuality, it was remarkably. authentic. Meaning, nothing spectacular. No wild epiphanies. No There it was in the library’s new release section, the style and energy of the cover catching my eye. I’m always up for a good graphic novel, and so, well, I gave it a whirl.
It was, hmmm. Not a sweeping narrative, nothing grand scale at all. Nor was the art style highly refined and technical.
But it worked. As a narrative within a narrative, it explores questions of identity, misunderstanding, and human sexuality, it was remarkably. authentic. Meaning, nothing spectacular. No wild epiphanies. No moments of wow. Just human beings, with all of their capacity for misunderstanding and ambiguity. If anything, the abstracted style deepened the humanity of it. an odd paradox, but a testament to both the writing and the aesthetic sensibility driving the images.
Both sharp and wistful. I connected with it more than I’d thought I would.
This was REALLY INTERESTING.
In both styles, the figures generally have large bodies and small heads. Particularly in the framing style, there are lots of times when the same characters are drawn quite differently, panel to panel.
But this feels artful, not careless. There is thought here.
It feels extra notable that these characters have big bodies because the plotline in the second narrative revolves around a stripper going home with a client. We don’t often see stories where sexualized bodies are large. This felt new.
Accessible while aesthetically interesting and experimental feeling.
And very very queer.
Two friends from high school meet in the grocery store and spend the evening drinking and catching up. The art is murky, genders are fluid and obscured — which is the point here, in a way.
There is also a story within the story, a «found» book about a married man separated from his wife who has an affair with a stripper. I think this found story was meant to illustrate, hey, even the straightforward heterosexuals are a little twisted once you get a peek inside.
This is a large format book, and the Two friends from high school meet in the grocery store and spend the evening drinking and catching up. The art is murky, genders are fluid and obscured — which is the point here, in a way.
There is also a story within the story, a «found» book about a married man separated from his wife who has an affair with a stripper. I think this found story was meant to illustrate, hey, even the straightforward heterosexuals are a little twisted once you get a peek inside.
This is a large format book, and the art is interesting and surreal, although confusing to any reader who is keen to know who is speaking. The found story is actually a little more coherent in terms of plot and character development. The main story, really, is just a few anecdotes about people we never get to meet or learn more about.
This painted and sketched graphic novel is just gorgeous and simply too short.
Cleary and Tim are old friends who run into each other by coincidence, and spend a night out together to reconnect. The past inevitably comes up and things go from awkward questioning, to sweet, to uncomfortable, and back again. During the night Cleary finds an abandoned illustrated book on the street, which follows a stripper having a relationship with one of her clients. (In case you’re planning to read in a public p This painted and sketched graphic novel is just gorgeous and simply too short.
The book-within-a-book structure gives a really nice layer to the overall themes of love – how we define it, our orientations, when friendship love becomes romantic (or doesn’t), queer relationships, pain in confronting the past, and finding love in ourselves. There are multiple opportunities for the reader to make their own connections – mainly what is the lie and how was it told, as well as how are the two stories connected. It’s ambiguous enough that the answers could be several different things, depending on how the reader interprets the story. I love this kind of storytelling because it shows the writer is not only skilled enough at dialogue and character to be subtle, but also trusts the reader to figure it out themselves.
The oversize book makes it seem like we’re in for a long story, but it’s over very quickly. Even though the graphic novel (or novella?) was a beautiful vignette and certainly ended at an appropriate moment, I really liked Cleary and wanted to see more of her story.
Continuing my saga through the random Best Comics of 2018 lists I found.
Two old friends have a chance meeting, and over the course of an evening they talk as they wander from location to location. Bit by bit they begin to see how their lives have diverged, how estranged they’ve become. It isn’t so much them growing apart as much as one has accepted who she is, and grown. The other. is a bit of a conflicted mess, needing to unload everything in his life without even realizing that’s what he wanted to do.
Read this graphic novel on a whim at the library, and was impressed by its realism. The awkward, searching conversation between two old friends who slowly realize they have evolved to much different places in their lives felt very true-to-life. Layered over the story is the ambiguity and fluidity of sexuality and gender, enhanced by Parrish’s artwork, which both somehow both enhances and obscures the physical cues we usually rely on to judge others as male/female, straight/gay. Overall, the stor Read this graphic novel on a whim at the library, and was impressed by its realism. The awkward, searching conversation between two old friends who slowly realize they have evolved to much different places in their lives felt very true-to-life. Layered over the story is the ambiguity and fluidity of sexuality and gender, enhanced by Parrish’s artwork, which both somehow both enhances and obscures the physical cues we usually rely on to judge others as male/female, straight/gay. Overall, the story feels quite bleak, in part because one of the characters is clearly trapped by cultural norms of masculinity and his flailing efforts to escape mainly just hurt those around him.