![]() ![]() Which is, I guess, something I should have realized a lot sooner had I wanted to save myself a bunch of completely unnecessary hassle.Ĭaroline is a recent art school grad who is many things - alcoholic, queer, aspiring author - but primarily she’s the kind of insufferable-yet-somehow-charming “artistic purist” we’ve probably all known. One that I’ve puzzled over a lot, truth be told, perhaps even too much. Wroten - who illustrates the proceedings in an agreeably modern updating of “classic cartooning” style and employs a very pleasing dulled-pastels color scheme throughout - more than likely places a lot of herself in protagonist Caroline Bertram, but just how much is a very open question indeed. But is this really another memoir about an aimless young adult? ![]() And the publishers’ promo blurb describing it “ Art School Confidential for the Tumblr generation” makes me feel even older than that. ![]() ![]() So, sure, Kelsey Wroten’s new hardcover graphic novel from Uncivilized Books, Cannonball, makes me feel ancient. Yup, we’ve seen it before : the college/art school, or the post-college/post-art school, memoir has been a ubiquitous fixture of the “alternative” comics scene for three decades or so - more than enough time, in fact, for people who grew up reading these sorts of things to have kids of their own who now, in turn, have their own “twentysomething” stories to tell. ![]()
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