In which there are the ladies and their loos
- On Romeo and Juliet: it occurs to me that if my name was "Juliet Capulet" and I lived in a society in which women change their surnames on marriage then I'd probably also want to get married young.
- I was somewhat confused by these hanging in the Ladies loos of a not especially trendy pub in Llangollen as I suspect your average lady of Llangollen (as distinct from the Ladies of Llangollen) isn't in the original target audience for these images. I wonder what was hanging in the Gents.
- Reading, books 2016, 205
183. Emiko Superstar, by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston, 2008, is one of the graphic novels aimed at teenage girls by clueless men at DC Comics and published under the late and unlamented "Minx" imprint. This is one of the better offerings and Ms Tamaki's writing skill shows but Mr Rolston's art was never going to live up to Jillian Tamaki's art for Skim, especially after the deliberately misogynist cartoon placed before even the first page of the story. (When I look at the successes currently being repeatedly scored by comics publishers letting women publish work aimed at a primarily female readership I have to ask myself yet again why some "businessmen" hate women more than they love money.) Anyway, I first read this in 2013 and didn't know how to describe or discuss it then either: "It was worth reading for me". The Japanese-Canadian teen protag finds herself through a summer of punk-venue performance art. (4/5, half a point more for the script and half a point less for the art)
184. Gingerbread Girl, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, 2011, re-read, and I think much the same as I did in 2015: "a lighthearted short graphic novel about a woman who might be clinically insane or might truly have a twin sister that their mad scientist father created from Our Heroine's brain. The story follows her life as told from multiple perspectives during the course of one evening, which she spends on a date with another woman. [The narrators include a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a pigeon, a conman, a professor, a sales assistant, a shoplifter, and a bulldog.] Warning for the fetishisation of Afro hair, and Our Heroine being an "untrustworthy" and "greedy" bisexual stereotype, although neither of those offended me in this context. I very much enjoy Mr Tobin's flippantly presented but telling character studies and Ms Coover's expressively narrative art, and find they complement each other perfectly (in this, in the more stylised Bandette, and even in the less complex Banana Sunday). A grown-up comic." (4/5)
• "I wish I could take off into the skies and make the whole city just a city, rather than a vast collection of truths, half-truths, and outright lies."
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- I was somewhat confused by these hanging in the Ladies loos of a not especially trendy pub in Llangollen as I suspect your average lady of Llangollen (as distinct from the Ladies of Llangollen) isn't in the original target audience for these images. I wonder what was hanging in the Gents.
- Reading, books 2016, 205
183. Emiko Superstar, by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Rolston, 2008, is one of the graphic novels aimed at teenage girls by clueless men at DC Comics and published under the late and unlamented "Minx" imprint. This is one of the better offerings and Ms Tamaki's writing skill shows but Mr Rolston's art was never going to live up to Jillian Tamaki's art for Skim, especially after the deliberately misogynist cartoon placed before even the first page of the story. (When I look at the successes currently being repeatedly scored by comics publishers letting women publish work aimed at a primarily female readership I have to ask myself yet again why some "businessmen" hate women more than they love money.) Anyway, I first read this in 2013 and didn't know how to describe or discuss it then either: "It was worth reading for me". The Japanese-Canadian teen protag finds herself through a summer of punk-venue performance art. (4/5, half a point more for the script and half a point less for the art)
184. Gingerbread Girl, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, 2011, re-read, and I think much the same as I did in 2015: "a lighthearted short graphic novel about a woman who might be clinically insane or might truly have a twin sister that their mad scientist father created from Our Heroine's brain. The story follows her life as told from multiple perspectives during the course of one evening, which she spends on a date with another woman. [The narrators include a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a pigeon, a conman, a professor, a sales assistant, a shoplifter, and a bulldog.] Warning for the fetishisation of Afro hair, and Our Heroine being an "untrustworthy" and "greedy" bisexual stereotype, although neither of those offended me in this context. I very much enjoy Mr Tobin's flippantly presented but telling character studies and Ms Coover's expressively narrative art, and find they complement each other perfectly (in this, in the more stylised Bandette, and even in the less complex Banana Sunday). A grown-up comic." (4/5)
• "I wish I could take off into the skies and make the whole city just a city, rather than a vast collection of truths, half-truths, and outright lies."
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