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EmiTown: A Sketch Diary (2010)

by Emi Lenox(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607063182 (ISBN13: 9781607063186)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Image Comics

series

EmiTown

review 1: Easy to read even in a scattered mental state. This is a good diary comic! By not aiming for a strip-worthy moment from each day, it avoids glibness; by summarizing liberally and generally avoiding capturing other peoples’ voices, it avoids a sense of story, which leaves it feeling more honest than many of its ilk. The anti-story rhythm establishes a sense of time really effectively. And the coy abstractions (army cats, Ocean Girl, whiteheart/blackheart) actually work for me really well, as a way to put emotional state on the page while maintaining a certain distance. And of course the art is fantastic.
review 2: This book is the diary of cartoonist Emi Lenox. I think the second one is coming out soon. It is a very sweet, quirky, hopeful look at the day-to-da... morey adventures of a twenty-something girl living in the Pacific Northwest who is trying to figure out what to do to make her life, friendships, and career work and fit together. The book has a journal format, and following her thoughts and developments daily really feels like reading someone else's secret musings. I want to say that if I could draw I would keep a similar journal, but I'd be lying. However, it did inspire me to keep a better record of things I do on a regular basis. It must be so nice to look back and realize how far you've gotten. :) less

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