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Body Music, Maroh’s third book, is about love in its many forms and stages, with a range of ethnicities and sexualities, some happy, some sad. I read Skandalon and Blue is the Warmest Color and liked them all right, 3 stars each. I think this book is a little more ambitious, and features maybe some Leggi tutto

Julie Maroh's introduction to Body Music explains that she wrote the story specifically to show that love and sex happen with all kinds of people, not just heteronormative cisgendered folks. While I firmly applaud that storytelling vision, the way she's actually gone about it is...just not all that

This graphic novel is about love, expressed in a variety of ways. But, rather than unifying the concept, it felt fractured. Anger, despair, rage, and loss all seemed to chip away at love.

I wanted to like this. I was a big fan of her earlier book, but this didn't work for me. There are 21 unconnected short stories herein. The faces look too much alike, I was probably halfway through before I realized that the stories were not connected. I kept trying to match the people up, because t Leggi tutto

A collection of short sexy pieces depicting many different relationships. Great visibility for a variety of diverse lives and lifestyles (body type diversity, skin tone diversity, and more). Extra yay for including polyamory (more than once!). I ate this so fast. Many of the pieces would fit right i Leggi tutto

Julie Maroh wrote that her intention with Body Music was to illustrate the realities of "bow-legged, chubby, ethnic, trans, pierced, scarred, ill, disabled, old, [and] hairy" people who are too often "outside all the usual aesthetic categories" that we associate with love stories. Though some of the Leggi tutto