Time Under Tension - Couverture souple

Harkness, M.S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1683968964 ISBN 13 : 9781683968962

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2023

Synopsis

M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career feels untenable ― as one professor tells her, “Don’t expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit.” She decides to get a personal trainer’s certificate ― it seems like a feasible and sensible career option ― but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around ― or, to get her shit together. “I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don’t want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations.”

Harkness’s bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

M.S. Harkness was born in Oklahoma and lives in Columbus, Ohio. She has been featured on the New Yorker's "Daily Shouts Page," is a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Artist Grant, and occasionally teaches comics at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her previous works include Tinderella and Desperate Pleasures (both from Uncivilized Books).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1683968964
• ISBN 13: 9781683968962
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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