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The Tillie Walden classic in a brand new hardback edition!
Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school.
They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
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Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school.
They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
In her follow up to the critic ...more
Hardcover, 68 pages
Published
October 12th 2017
by Avery Hill Publishing
(first published November 13th 2015)
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Short and honest and SAD. My heart hurts in the best way 😭
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.
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A short and poignant storyline and, nicely drawn graphics!
Tillie Walden`s i love this part is an example of how a graphic novella can be simple yet intense. This is the story of a friendship-relationship between two girls.
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Tillie Walden`s i love this part is an example of how a graphic novella can be simple yet intense. This is the story of a friendship-relationship between two girls.
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rep: Black sapphic mc, Jewish sapphic mc
absolutely love this feeling of teen girls being bigger than the world
absolutely love this feeling of teen girls being bigger than the world
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.
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Here's 4 or 5 panels from it, so lovely.
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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. ...more
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. ...more
Wow.
Amazing art.
Intense story line.
Coming of age.
Too short for me.
But nevertheless good.
Amazing art.
Intense story line.
Coming of age.
Too short for me.
But nevertheless good.
i love this art.
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.
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.
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.
This is really cute but way too short to get attached to the characters and their story so only 3.5 stars from me.
Tillie Walden's artwork is beautiful and she's such a great storyteller. I wish this had been longer.
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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! ...more
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! ...more
Mar 25, 2019
Madalyn (Novel Ink)
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well now I’m sad
Tillie Walden's art is so freaking gorgeous 🥰
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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.
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Aug 10, 2020
Vanessa Menezes
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it was ok
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This is an intense story about the relationship between two teen girls. But, I felt it was too short to do it justice.
3.5 stars
Short hard hitting graphic novel with gorgeous art!
Short hard hitting graphic novel with gorgeous art!
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
Jun 29, 2020
bianca
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rep: Black sapphic mc, Jewish sapphic mc
right now i feel like tillie walden is the only human being that can make me feel so empty yet so full
right now i feel like tillie walden is the only human being that can make me feel so empty yet so full
Erm, :-? What?
(I liked the structure though, like mini flashbacks allover the book.)
(I liked the structure though, like mini flashbacks allover the book.)
The story was short but it was really sweet and sad. The graphics were gorgeous!
tremendously tender and lovely and sad. i saw a lot of myself in this, and i think i was meant to. made me scared to be alive, but glad someone understood enough to illustrate where i was. tillie walden looked into my big dumb heart and got me, and i don't like that she did it, but i can't begrudge her that.
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I love the juxtaposition of landscapes with the extra large figures. It creates a timeless setting for the two main characters which any reader who's been there understands immediately. It makes the way things work out between the two characters all the more tragic.
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There are two girls. They like each other, but one of them doesn't really know how to handle her feelings. She isn't ready for anything more than a friendship. Really short story, I didn't really connect to it the way I wanted/expected to.
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A nice, short, contemplative narrative.
nice to know that i can get my heart broken in less than five minutes! but this was so so beautiful
this was so sad yeah
Dec 09, 2020
Jessica Mae Stover
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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 ...more
And what is this title doing in the YA library section? This book ...more
i will probably think about every page of this book. its short, simple and bittersweet. but it's also larger than life. i loved the way the surreal imagery was used to convery the very real emotions. really want a physical copy of this one.
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3 stars | Sad, little slice of life. ngl I was expecting a lot more from this... The art is outstanding though
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Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. Born in 1996, she is a recent graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies, a comics school in Vermont. Over the course of her time at CCS she published three books with the London based Avery Hill Publishing. She has already received an Eisner Award nomination and two Ignatz Awards for her early works. When she is not drawing comic
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