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Showing posts with label Pascal Girard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pascal Girard. Show all posts
Friday, June 06, 2014
Bigfoot
I really enjoyed this little coming of age story about a young man growing up right in the midst of the most humiliating experience of his life. I really like Pascal's drawing style, and it's been interesting reading his books almost in reverse and seeing how he's progressed. It's about a young teen in Quebec who just became a YouTube in sensation (not in a good way) and how he deals with that and a crush and life in general. It's sweet and honest and well worth your time if you like coming of age stories in this medium.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Petty Theft
I really quite enjoyed this book. It debuted at TCAF this year (Toronto Comic Arts Festival), so I snagged a copy from Pascal himself. It's a cute story about a comic artist who spots a beautiful woman stealing a copy of his book and shoplifts it. Fun set-up. It's a bit of a love-letter to the love of books. I dug it.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Reunion
This was one of the books I picked up at TCAF on the recommendation of others - I also grabbed Pascal's newest book Petty Theft and will be reading that sometime shortly. This is self autobiographical about Pascal getting the nerve up to attend his highschool reunion.
I've passed the 10 year mark for high-school (holy shit...) and so far as I know there was no reunion - I almost feel like the age of facebook has made the whole thing moot anyway - if you want to know what people are up to it's not all that difficult these days. And if you fall out of touch with people given how easy it is to stay in touch, chances are you were never really that close to begin with.
There's a nice little character arc here, although I must admit that the character becomes quite grating towards the end - but I think that's largely intentional. This is my first entry into the world of Pascal Girard, so I look forward to more of his work - it's quite funny in a delightfully awkward way.
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