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*pivey* re: Blankets
I just read Blankets last week! A friend nagged me to read it so I finally got it at the library. The first 50 pages crushed my freaking soul (his wretched childhood, etc.) - so I picked up Chicken with Plums by our friend Satrapi, which I had also gotten. More misery! It was good, though.
I ended up really liking Blankets - it was smaller and more beautiful than I expected, just their little first love. Fun.
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Re: *pivey* re: Blankets
Most graphic novels are depressing. They are all also mostly autoethnographic (study of culture through writing about self - oversimplification)...and a whole lot of sexuality exploration. That is aside from Manga/superhero crap.
Craig - guy who did Blankets - also has a lovely travel piece - can't remember the name right now, but I recommend it.
Marj is awesome - I want to be her. I love that they made Persepolis a movie. Rocks my world.
Music for Blankets? Nice!
Yep on the depressing nature of graphic novels. I've got a chapter in my diss about comix as vehicles for memory or witness of trauma. Cheerful! The house that Spiegleman built!
I didn't like the movie for Persepolis as much as the books, which makes no sense to me. I mean- the same thing, right??
OMG - I heart you and your diss. Someone who gets. There is a god! I would totally agree that comix are a vehicle for memory, etc. I also think that are socially constructive, and rhetorically significant for the use of both language and image in tandem.
I didn't see the movie. I didn't really want to - but I was happy for her.