Esta parte me encanta

by Tillie Walden, Gabriela Fajardo (Translator)

Esta parte me encanta de Tillie Walden es una historia de amor y desamor de dos amigas adolescentes que pasan sus días en un suburbio.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, LGBT, Queer, Young Adult, Romance, Lesbian

68 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2015

About the author

Tillie Walden is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Born in 1996 in San Diego, California, Walden graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, where she is currently a professor.
Walden started publishing short comics when she was just a teenager. Her first long-form graphic novel The End of Summer was published by the British publisher Avery Hill in 2015. Her second book I Love This Part came out only a few months later, winning the 2016 Ignatz Award for promising new talent. Later Walden received the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work for her memoir Spinning (2017). Among her other works are A City Inside (2016), On a Sunbeam (2018), Are You Listening? (2020), Alone in Space (2021) and the series Clementine.

Reviews

[anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

rep: Black sapphic mc, Jewish sapphic mc

absolutely love this feeling of teen girls being bigger than the world

[s.penkevich [hiatus-will return-miss you all] · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tillie Walden is masterful, and her early works such as the brief graphic story I Love This Part showcase a budding talent and an adept storytelling through images that convey a deep emotional narrative. The story is quick, something read in just a few minutes, but it captures the turmoil of a failing relationship and identity struggles with sexuality in a way that will completely consume you and linger far beyond the time spent reading. It’s a simple story filled with longing and loss but also the bittersweet taste of hope and young love when it seems to hit so hard and pure.

The artwork is gorgeous, and I love the way Walden draws the characters as larger than the landscape. Like giants against mountain ranges, it captures a sense in early love that your relationship is larger than the world and all your attention is drawn towards it. The later frames, especially the ones without dialogue, makes silence speak loudly and emphasizes the vast distance between the two characters despite moments of being bridged through shared emotion.


The character designs will look familiar to fans, as the girlfriend seems a model for the similar role in her other books while the other girl seems modeled off Walden herself. The story briefly touches on a lot of struggles with self-worth and confidence.This is a lovely little story and I could stare at Walden’s artwork for hours. It is brief and of her earlier stages before adding bold colors and developing a looser style, but it is also marvelous.

4.5/5

[Chelsea (chelseadolling reads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and honest and SAD. My heart hurts in the best way 😭

[Whitney Atkinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This little sapphic story was sweet but I think I need to bite the bullet and admit that Tillie's books aren't for me. As much as I want to adore them and as much as I relate to them, they feel so emotionless to me. I think it aims for melancholy but lands somewhere between dreary and hard to understand, and it's a trend in all of her books.

[Dave Schaafsma · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short elliptical sweet and sad story about a relationship between two teen girls, with lots of space and not much dialogue that juxtaposes tableaux-type depictions of fragments of their relationship with sweeping landscapes and detailed architectural studies of buildings. Subtle lavender washed pen and ink images, emotionally resonant.

Here's 4 or 5 panels from it, so lovely.

http://tilliewalden.com/work/i-love-t...

[jut · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love this art.

[Reading_ Tamishly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow.
Amazing art.
Intense story line.
Coming of age.
Too short for me.
But nevertheless good.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

This was such a lovely graphic novel that is realistic and also sad in so many ways. I think that the main metaphor was perfectly captured in the drawings: sometimes love can make you feel like the biggest thing in the world and it was so nice to see this concept depicted on the page, it really made an impact. I'm giving it 3 stars just because it was a little too short for my taste.

[Rod Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

A heartbreaking romance is told in a series of its smallest -- and yet biggest -- moments.

One of the few nice things about moving is going into your new local library and finding books that have been on your TBR for like forever.

UPDATE 10/14/2021:
This story is now reprinted in Alone in Space: A Collection, a worthwhile collection of Tillie Walden's hard-to-find early works and other odds and ends.

[Valentina Quiceno · Rating 5 out of 5]

La historia de estas dos chicas que haciendo cosas cotidianas juntas terminan enamorándose; los dibujos son preciosos, la verdad es que podía quedarme sumida en ellos durante mucho tiempo. La historia es preciosa, llega con el inicio en calma, un desarrollo que comienza a pitar como una locomotora, y luego el final: real y expectante; te deja con el corazón en la mano.

[Isa Cantos (Crónicas de una Merodeadora) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tillie Walden nos cuenta en Esta Parte Me Encanta cómo el amor puede surgir con las situaciones más pequeñas, cómo puede hacernos sentir como lo más grande del universo... pero también cómo puede acabarse por miedo al qué dirán y a qué pensarán los demás. Con ilustraciones preciosas que transmiten un montón de sentimientos, nos encontramos con una historia que nos romperá el corazón.

[Iben Frederiksen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The illustrations are so lovely and I love the idea behind it, but it was just far too short for me to really form a connection with the characters and their relationship.

[MariNaomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so beautiful, the story so earnest, I cried a little as I read it.

Note 1: I was in public, sitting at the Retrofit Comics table at SPX.
Note 2: I hate crying in public. But it was worth it.

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tillie Walden's artwork is beautiful and she's such a great storyteller. I wish this had been longer.

[Sylwia · Rating 3 out of 5]

More like 3.9
This is a very short graphic novel story that goes through the highs and lows of a relationship between two young girls. It's both concise and subtle, so even though it's short, it makes an impact. I enjoyed it!

[jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

can we ever tell anybody?
probably not

Short and sweet might be the best way I can think to describe this. It's possible to read it in just a few short minutes but it lingers after. The art is also beautiful, loved that the girls were bigger than the world, aren't they all?

[Jojo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

This is really cute but way too short to get attached to the characters and their story so only 3.5 stars from me.

[Sasha Elise · Rating 5 out of 5]

tw {internalized homophobia}

i've read this so many times but it's the first time i got to read the kindle edition. there's no difference but i was excited.

you know, i get this. being a kid or teen and being in this bubble where everything outside of you feels bigger than it is and your feelings are biggest most overwhelming thing in the world and sometimes it becomes to much or you've been taught something and it takes years to unlearn it. i just hope they turn out okay when they're older...

[Madalyn (Novel Ink) · Rating 4 out of 5]

well now I’m sad

[laura (bbliophile) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tillie Walden's art is so freaking gorgeous 🥰

[kai | 凯香 · Rating 4 out of 5]

this took me maybe five minutes to read, but it still managed to provide sapphic black and jewish rep as well as tell a very honest, emotional story

[fer · Rating 3 out of 5]

curtinho mas lindo e cheio de emoçao. as ilustraçoes todas em tons de roxo, cinza e preto

[eri b.❀ · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was... okay-ish? Like the drawings were cute and the story bittersweet and honest. Still, I think the story was maybe a little too short for me; I couldn't feel the nostalgia/love/heartbreak it was trying to portray. Maybe... I'm not smart enough for it and I couldn't get the full meaning of the drawings? Or Tillie Walden isn't for me. Anyhow! Glad there are more sweet sapphic romances out there.

[Vanessa Menezes · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an intense story about the relationship between two teen girls. But, I felt it was too short to do it justice.

[Star · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can something so short pack such a punch?
Ouch.
I fucking loved it.

[Jessica Mae Stover]

A purposefully slight graphic novel that succeeds in what it sets out to do in exploring physical and emotional spaces: the spaces between people, the largeness of togetherness that fills up space, and the space the author leaves for readers to interpret. The author's skill in drawing structures (of note in her other works) suits the theme here in particular. This work would transition well to an experimental motion picture short.

And what is this title doing in the YA library section? This book should at least be made accessible to late middle-grade+.

[Esteban Parra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una mirada contemplativa y cotidiana por una historia de amor tan aguda como bella. Tillie Walden saca un provecho tremendo de la bicromía del apartado gráfico para enfatizar las etapas, las sensaciones y los sentimientos que van pasando en el avance de la relación entre dos chicas.

Una novela gráfica llena de nostalgia, música y desolación.

Reseña completa: https://goo.gl/PrrrNm

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deceptively simple: adolescent girls gone giant in giant, scenic landscapes because that's exactly what adolescent love feels like--huge and outsize and epic and impossible. Perfect use of color and scale and scope--I swooned mightily. A real gem, though I wish it were longer.

[Eva B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was good but also I wish it was longer

[Maro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tillie Walden's art is so fucking beautiful (also the colors >>>).
The story was sweet and sad and realistic, I really liked it.