A review by jeanneerin
The Best American Comics 2014 by Scott McCloud, Bill Kartalopoulos
4.0
Unfortunately, nothing you do is going to make me like R. Crumb. And this gross sex scene (I am not a prude, even about geriatric sex!) made me need to hide this book from my six year old.
But Chris Ware! Holy crap. Has anything so completely shown the solitude of existence and motherhood (and how you can truly never know what happens when your asleep? I guess? I don't know, I was afraid of the end).
And Allie Brosch, who helped me put words to my own depression what seems like so long ago.
And now I need to go find more Michael DeForge.
And Tom Hart. I have no words for Tom Hart.
I admit that about halfway through I started feeling a little "Emperor's new clothes" and tried to like it even if I didn't. Experimental just isn't me. Between that and the Crumb piece I just can't say I liked the book more than a three, though the parts I loved were a ten.
My son is trying to check it out again, damn that fucking R. Crumb.
But Chris Ware! Holy crap. Has anything so completely shown the solitude of existence and motherhood (and how you can truly never know what happens when your asleep? I guess? I don't know, I was afraid of the end).
And Allie Brosch, who helped me put words to my own depression what seems like so long ago.
And now I need to go find more Michael DeForge.
And Tom Hart. I have no words for Tom Hart.
I admit that about halfway through I started feeling a little "Emperor's new clothes" and tried to like it even if I didn't. Experimental just isn't me. Between that and the Crumb piece I just can't say I liked the book more than a three, though the parts I loved were a ten.
My son is trying to check it out again, damn that fucking R. Crumb.