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Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons (2012)

by Flannery O'Connor(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Fantagraphics

review 1: There is hope for me yet! F O'C sort of started out making woodblock prints for her school newspapers! They're a bit sour and a bit funny, like her writing! Whoulda thunk. Well, probably most.Since they're for a girl's college newspaper in the 40s they are not entirely applicable or enjoyable outside of that context, but it is pretty cool that they're being recognized as an integral part of her body of work! Cool.
review 2: I happened o see this book on the new book display during my most recent visit to the library and couldn't resist borrowing it. O'Connor is high on my list of authors I really want to read and Southern authors I've missed completely.This was an interesting and fun find. The cartoons date from the early 1940s when O'Connor was in high school ... moreand college and express her general and specific observations of life. Having also attended a small woman's college, though in the late 1960s, I was amused and a bit astonished at similarities between our college worlds (at least my first 2 years before the walls began to fall).In addition to the cartoons themselves, there is discussion of their place in her general story and as a precursor to and part of her developing fiction.I did enjoy this, especially the cartoon, though I must confess to occasional skimming of the analysis for the "good parts." After reading this, I have a feeling that O'Connor would have absolutely no problem with that.Recommended for those interested in Flannery O'Connor. Rating 3.5. less

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