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Lädt ... My Begging Chartvon Keiler Roberts
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  villemezbrown | Mar 8, 2022 |  keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one's foibles are left unspared, most often the author's own....Roberts can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing barbies with her daughter and will momentarily snap out of her depression. Her harmless fibs to get through the moment are brought up by her daughter a year or two later, yet without hesitation Roberts will request that her daughter's imaginary friend not visit when she is around. Her MS diagnosis lingers in the background, never taking center stage."-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)741.5The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Drawing & drawings Cartoons, Caricatures, ComicsKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.1)
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After reading Sunburning and Chlorine Gardens, I wasn't planning to seek out her work anymore. But I decided to make a project of reading all the graphic novels on NPR's and Publishers Weekly best of 2021 lists, and both of them included My Begging Chart so my compulsive nature demanded another go round with her. I read the first 40 pages cautiously optimistic that this was the book where I finally got it, why critics and several of my Goodreads friends like her strips so much.
But nope.
I hate read the rest of the book, resenting the pure tedium of sharing tiny moments of her days. Soooooooooooooo many strips about her daughter saying something Roberts finds cute or amusing. Many strips where Roberts talks to people she doesn't even bother to introduce. Many strips striving to get as close to being about nothing as humanly possible short of just leaving the page blank.
Maddening.
No more for me, thank you. Make me read Ziggy. Make me read B.C. or Garfield lasagna strips or even those godawful "Love Is . . . " panels with the little naked people. Just no more Keiler Roberts, please. (