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I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections
by
Julia Wertz (Goodreads Author)
This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings and make you think. Lonely hearts, romantics, and even cynics pore over missed connection ads in search of love, to gawk and giggle, or out of curiosity. These posted stranger sightings and chance encounters lay bare...more
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
February 3rd 2009
by Three Rivers Press
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I SAW YOU . . . EDITED BY JULIA WERTZ: The next time you pay a visit to Craigslist (and I’m sure you check it every day now for the job postings), look under the “Personals” column and you’ll see a option titled “Missed Connections.” It’s where men and women seeking women or men recount a recent chance meeting with someone who captured their heart in the blink of an eye. Perhaps it was a short but sweet conversation over the purchase of a latte; or gazing into one another’s eyes on the train t...more
Inspired by "missed connections" ads on Craigslist, this collection of comics is proof that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. A talented bunch of independent artists take verbatim entries and embellish. One or two are autobiographical and focus more on the assignment, rather than inventing a graphical story. In most cases, pictures compliment the stories well; there is a lot of repetition of theme, and some are more clever than others; "Trading Smiles" in which the ca...more
I ended up buying this book after having read most of Wertz' other work. I knew that this book was compiling work from several authors, so I knew that the artwork & storytelling abilities would differ from person to person. For the most part this is actually a pretty good book.
The listings in this are pulled from craigslist as well as other venues, but seems to be predominantly craigslist. The stories run from funny to sad to downright tragic. We see possible reactions to these listing...more
The listings in this are pulled from craigslist as well as other venues, but seems to be predominantly craigslist. The stories run from funny to sad to downright tragic. We see possible reactions to these listing...more
This book combines two of my favorite modern-day phenomena: graphic art and Missed Connections.
If you’re unaware of Missed Connections, you should visit Craigslist.com immediately and click on the link for it. Missed Connections is a place online where people can post little love notes (or maybe “would-be-love” notes) about how they saw someone they were romantically interested in around town and neglected to say something. The posts can range from cute to creepy to wildly inappropri...more
If you’re unaware of Missed Connections, you should visit Craigslist.com immediately and click on the link for it. Missed Connections is a place online where people can post little love notes (or maybe “would-be-love” notes) about how they saw someone they were romantically interested in around town and neglected to say something. The posts can range from cute to creepy to wildly inappropri...more
Fun read. I especially appreciated the artists who took the time not to depict the usual fat redneck salivating over hot girl angle.
I want to do a comic of a craiglist mc I saw one time that started like this:
"Glasses, Hoodie, Skinny Jeans on Bike - w4m
I see you around school and at shows all the time, and I just had to get it off my chest: I think you're incredibly sexy. I love your tight jeans and dark eyes. You're always really funny, and I can't tell if you're f...more
I want to do a comic of a craiglist mc I saw one time that started like this:
"Glasses, Hoodie, Skinny Jeans on Bike - w4m
I see you around school and at shows all the time, and I just had to get it off my chest: I think you're incredibly sexy. I love your tight jeans and dark eyes. You're always really funny, and I can't tell if you're f...more
Fun little collection of comic artists riffing on real-life personal ads. They vary in length from a page to several, some are anecdotes of the creators actual experiences relating to personals, some use the sequential art medium to give the text a whole new (generally creepy) meaning. It was fun to see the variety of approaches and illustration styles (Wertz includes artists from both the published GN community and the zine community, which is very very cool), although I did see a prevailing ...more
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Julia Wertzin toimittama "I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real-life Missed Connections" (Three Rivers Press, 2009) sisältää pieniä sarjakuvatarinoita, joiden aiheena ovat Missed Connections -palstoille jättämät ilmoitukset, joissa haikaillaan kahvilassa nähdyn ihmisen perään ja uskotaan lyhyen katsekontaktin sisältävän myös lupauksen ikuisesta rakkaudesta. Sarjakuva-antologian konsepti on siis sama kuin tamperelaisessa Sarjarissa, ja odotukset olivat korkealla, olihan perusidea hyvä ja ...more
I've always been intrigued by the little soap operas-in-miniature that are encapsulated in missed connections ads, and this book will help feed that morbid curiosity of anyone who has read those sections and found themselves mentally embroidering upon the fragmented recaps of transitory connections. The artists in this collection seize upon all of the inherent humor, pathos, and let's face it--occasional skeeziness--of the ads in exactly the same way the average reader would, so as satisfying as...more
This book combines two things I really like—comics and missed connections—and I like select stories in here, though the collection overall feels "off"/"weak". I would be very interested if this book were ALL w4w stories, but that won't happen, so at least more from the m4w (I think there was like, one?) and the w4w (again, like one) and the other sections. The organization/layout could be revised, too, like to sort it by w4m, m4w, etc & like, each contributor has their name a...more
This book is full of cartoons and graphic short stories based on real life ads found in Craiglist's missed connections section. I had no idea this existed, so that was surprise number one. Surprise number two was that such ads could inspire these comics and cartoon artists to create such amazing work. I loved immersing myself in their interpretations of what hides behind a missed connection ad, of what the person really meant, or what the encounter could have been like.
I loved what Julia ...more
I loved what Julia ...more
I must admit that I've never read the Craiglist "missed connections" postings before reading this graphic novel. Almost everyone I ask about the listings have read them and continue to read them finding great joy in the listings, like little writings on a club's bulletin board- an almost peepshow into modern life, a more desperate Match.com. Having never read the postings before, I was amused an taken aback by the sincerity and out right creepiness of the postings turned visual art fou...more
Found out about this comic through Shaenon Garrity, who drew one of the comics for this collection. When it comes to (indie) comics, I generally enjoy these anthology-type of works. I'm still not fully familiar with all of the big 'names' so by reading anthologies, I get a sampling of the artists whose works I like and who I may eventually look up and follow when I get the time.
The book's premise is actually cute. I know I've browsed through the missed connections section of Craigslist...more
The book's premise is actually cute. I know I've browsed through the missed connections section of Craigslist...more
Well. It only took an hour to read. Ultimately, it was a pretty sad book. But I suppose you expect that from a book about people searching for love no? A lot of the 'missed connections' were rather sweet in and of themselves, and you could tell when the artist had chosen a rather creepy one for the shock value alone. I did enjoy the ones taken completely out of context though. All in all, I suppose it actually made me feel a little better for the dozens of stupid little crushes I develop about p...more
She's single and looking for love in all the wrong places. And there love is, right in front of her - that dude with the headphones nodding off on the subway! HE'S YOUR ONE TRUE LOVE DONT LET HIM GO NOOOOOOO HE WOKE UP AND IT'S HIS STOP NOOOOO HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE AHHHHHHH!!!!
When I was single I would have really liked this compilation of missed connections-y fantasy, but now I just feel tired thinking about how I used to concoct these dumb romantic stories for myself that never...more
When I was single I would have really liked this compilation of missed connections-y fantasy, but now I just feel tired thinking about how I used to concoct these dumb romantic stories for myself that never...more
Illustrating Missed Connections is a dangerous concept that might have produced cookie-cutter strips, but I was genuinely pleased with the playful outcome of I Saw You. The cartoonists of the book have a wide array of MC interpretations (autobiographic judgments, literal re-enactments, fantasy scenarios) and the flow really works. I wasn't familiar with most of the artists, so I Saw You is a great source for discovering new talent. The artists that stood out the most were: Corinne Mucha, Matthew...more
I have long been fascinated with missed connections personal ads, so I was pretty excited when I heard about this book. A bunch of artists did "comics inspired by real-life missed connections." Like all comics anthologies, I didn't like all the art, but at least all of the stories were weird and/or engaging.
My favorites: "I Just Had to Tell You" by Corinne Mucha, "May 20, 1987" by Dan Archer, " You Had Sideburns and a Mullet..." by Shaenon K....more
My favorites: "I Just Had to Tell You" by Corinne Mucha, "May 20, 1987" by Dan Archer, " You Had Sideburns and a Mullet..." by Shaenon K....more
This slim, but packed book benefits from a great premise--Missed Connections ads. We who read those ads are half-desparate lonley hearts and closeted voyeurs. These ads explored and reimagined in a stylistically diverse collection from very talented artists and writers (some of whom I know!). Includes the likes of Peter Bagge, Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Barlow, Jesse Reklaw, Megan Baehr, Ken Dahl,Linda Park, etc.
Thanks to editor Julia Wertz, the book is elevated from the random select...more
Thanks to editor Julia Wertz, the book is elevated from the random select...more
This is a collection of mini-comics inspired by the missed connections section of Craigslist. I had read about this book somewhere and was intrigued. Then I met the editor at New York Comic Con, bought a copy and had her sign it. As in most collections, there is some wonderful stuff, some pretty mediocre stuff and everything in between.
Maybe at some point I'll find a chance to go through and note some of the best comics.
Maybe at some point I'll find a chance to go through and note some of the best comics.
Absolutely hilarious, not a book that you need to read cover to cover, you can flip through and find some comics that you love more than others. Organized by theme and edited brilliantly if you've ever found yourself looking at the clock and realizing you've spent twenty minutes reading the missed connections page on Craigslist in a fit of procrastination (it's not just me!) then you will love this book!
Each comic is done by a different artist, so there are a lot of different art styles and different takes on how to illustrate a missed connection — some are straightforward and beautifully rendered, a couple take the Craiglist ad and turn it into something super-creepy (though I suppose some of the ads are!), most are somewhere in between.
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A wonderful graphic novel full of shorts from many different artists. I think Julia Wertz's idea of doing a collaborative project based upon missed connect ads from Craigslist was brilliant. My favorite thing about this anthology has got to be the variety of drawing styles used. I would reccomend this title to anyone who enjoys comics, especially those based on real life instances.
This was fun to look at and interesting to see how desperate some people are to connect with someone. I would have preferred if it was just a straight collection of missed connections ads because it got a little distracting and confusing to read between comic lines. Nevertheless, I love the idea behind this book. I've always wanted to see something like this published.
This book is a collection of many comics that are each based off of "Missed Connections" from Craigslist. Some are sad, some are funny, some are romantic, etc. I believe that some of them are verbatim Missed Connections from CL that the artists just made up visuals for, and others are comics that were more loosely based on postings. A fun quick read though.
I think I maybe lent this to Gareth K Vile, or maybe it's just somewhere under the pile of clutter that passes for my desk, so I can't pick out my favourite bits for this review and already August feels like a distant memory (what did I do in August?). But I knew I'd love this, because a) I love the general concept of I Saw You ads, Missed Connections, and such, and b) it's an anthology, so any bits I wasn't into (of which there were few) didn't take up the whole book.
I do not draw c...more
I do not draw c...more
In addition to the fact that I'm nosey and something of a voyeur of craigslist, this book is really lovely because it demonstrates the art of understated storytelling.
Not connected to this book, but see also Sophie Blackall's weekly Missed Connections art blog: http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
Not connected to this book, but see also Sophie Blackall's weekly Missed Connections art blog: http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/
I love Missed Connections, and the idea for this book is genius. It helps that so many of the artists featured in the book seem to really get what makes Missed Connections so interesting: that they exist at the nexus of romantic and pathetic and creepy and desperate and sweet. Actually, I think they emphasize the creepy a little too much.
The best of these comics stick closely to their source material, which seems strange, when you consider how poorly written the average Missed Conn...more
The best of these comics stick closely to their source material, which seems strange, when you consider how poorly written the average Missed Conn...more
Too long and uneven to really be great; too short to be overbloated and awful.
This one had some great pieces scattered throughout, but most were mediocre at best.
Unless you want to help support indie comics published through a mainstream house, or you're a fan of more than five contributors found within, you can probably skip this one.
This one had some great pieces scattered throughout, but most were mediocre at best.
Unless you want to help support indie comics published through a mainstream house, or you're a fan of more than five contributors found within, you can probably skip this one.
I just couldn't get into this at all. I liked the concept, but I thought the execution was way off. The bulk of the illustrations were disappointing, totally sub-par, and I'm sorry, but it's a graphic novel. If the art isn't grabbing in some way, you are working in the wrong medium.
Like most short stories collections, this has the good, the bad, and the really weird. It was interesting to see how the different ads inspired the different authors. I will admit, though, that I was expecting longer comics instead of, essentially, a bunch of comic strips.
Like any collection, this has some hits and some misses. In this case, though, many of the misses can be blamed on the source material, since Missed Connection ads are sometimes funny but frequently somewhat monotonous.
Still, entertaining and mostly funny.
Still, entertaining and mostly funny.
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Julia was born in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay area. She's the author of the unfortunately titled autobio graphic novels the Fart Party Vol 1 & 2 (Atomic Books 2007/2009) and Drinking at the Movies (Random House 2010). Her next book, Museum of Mistakes, is due out in May 2012 from Koyama Press. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York
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