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A review by saidtheraina
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick
5.0
Dude - what took me so long*?
Pedro and Me is the true memoir of a guy who was on MTV's The Real World with a really cool person who happened to have AIDS.
It talks about Judd's life, it talks about Pedro's life, and it talks about their friendship and experiences on the show. It very personally chronicles a very historical event in a super touching way.
Yes, I cried too. But I've kinda been like that lately.
It feels like Judd is super honest and real about the whole experience. Yes, of course there's an agenda, but it's not like that's a secret. Winick is an effective comic creator, using a variety of panel approaches and leading the eye really well. I wanted more photographs, and there were a few places where the narrative kind of floundered (for the time actually on the show, it's sometimes hard to tell what's on camera and what's off, and some of the noncentral relationships are a little unclear. Also, things are told topically, instead of chronologically, so that's occasionally confusing). But in the most important things, Winick does a great job.
An important chapter in health and GLBTIQA history.
*Give me a break, I was twelve when these events went down, and didn't have a TV.
Pedro and Me is the true memoir of a guy who was on MTV's The Real World with a really cool person who happened to have AIDS.
It talks about Judd's life, it talks about Pedro's life, and it talks about their friendship and experiences on the show. It very personally chronicles a very historical event in a super touching way.
Yes, I cried too. But I've kinda been like that lately.
It feels like Judd is super honest and real about the whole experience. Yes, of course there's an agenda, but it's not like that's a secret. Winick is an effective comic creator, using a variety of panel approaches and leading the eye really well. I wanted more photographs, and there were a few places where the narrative kind of floundered (for the time actually on the show, it's sometimes hard to tell what's on camera and what's off, and some of the noncentral relationships are a little unclear. Also, things are told topically, instead of chronologically, so that's occasionally confusing). But in the most important things, Winick does a great job.
An important chapter in health and GLBTIQA history.
*Give me a break, I was twelve when these events went down, and didn't have a TV.