Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780224082396 (0224082396)
Publish date: March 20th 2008
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Romance,
Adult,
Biography Memoir,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Bande Dessinée
I think I just would have preferred to read her perspective - as nuanced and sensitive as he tried to be, and as valid as his perspective is - as a character, she wasn't given a lot of room to talk, which was weird to me? It was more diary comics about him processing.
An autobiographical comic about a young man who learns his girlfriend and her young son are HIV+. The relationships (between Fred and his gf, his friends, and especially the little boy) are sweet and feel true, and the art is really good. His ink is fluid but nevertheless conveys a great deal of i...
Bande dessinée. Memoir of quiet domestic drama; well done. The pictures are sometimes over-simple, but don't fall into the opposite trap of being distracting.
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