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This review is kind of like an "it's not you, it's me" break-up, because I should really acknowledge that Dash Shaw's The Bottomless Bellybutton represents a certain side of art-house indie cartooning that just doesn't resonate with me. There is a scene late in the comic when the grandmother is at t Leggi tutto

Let's see...dysfunctional white family; goofy low self esteemed guy who can't make it with chicks but has a quirky chick quick to go for his sausage conveniently pop up solely for the purpose of going for his sausage; did we mention unsympathetic bored whiney dysfunctional white family... This is the Leggi tutto

Far and away Dash Shaw's best work yet; the story is a little more straightforward/less surreal than some of Dash's other books, except for a character who appears as a frog, but he continues to play with the comics form, and without doing it in such a way that it distracts from the narrative. A hug Leggi tutto

This book doesn’t make you happy. It doesn’t make you feel good at all. The characters are frustrating. But it’s just SO WELL MADE. I loved the descriptions of visual details, motion, even colors or lighting. Those descriptions do not make up for any shortcomings in the drawings, because those are f Leggi tutto

We follow a dysfunctional family in great detail as each member goes about his and her daily routine. Nothing interesting, really. This person masturbates. That person has sex. At a point, it gets very repetitive. For some reason, we had to see every single character take a shower. WTH?! No wonder th Leggi tutto

This was OK, the drawing is a bit meh, but the author overcomes that with an innovative storytelling. It feels like another attemp to write the "great american graphic novel". Sorry but, in my opinion, Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan is still in the lead. Worthwhile reading but couldn't but feel a bit d Leggi tutto

Shaw wzbija się na komiksowe wyżyny, przedstawiając rodzinną obyczajówkę z wieloma smaczkami i porozmieszczanymi w wielu miejscach ciekawymi rozwiązaniami formalnymi, jednocześnie wciągając czytelnika w dynamiczną i pełną napięć fabułę. Jestem pod wrażeniem całej palety osobowości spotkanych w tej 7 Leggi tutto

a massive brick of cartooning, shattering the staid glass window panes of other so-called graphic novels with its "exhuberance" & its visual swagger -- using maps, rebuses & secret codes to detail the tale of a family, where no one resembles another*, impacted by the divorce of the parents after for Leggi tutto