Sabrina

Fucking beautiful. Downright inspiring. Well-crafted graphic novel.  I've been buzzing around Nin's work for a little while. Collecting it, but being a bit tentative to dive in. So I think it is an absolute testament to author Léonie Bischoff that her biography has given me the push to finally dive into Nin's work. I'm excited to come back to this work at another time and after having my first personal foray into Anaïs Nin's collection. 

I watched the anime first and coming back to start the manga is such a great experience. I feel nostalgia but also a new appreciation for this story. The art is amazing, and I found myself laughing throughout. I determined I would read every volume and recommend you check it out too!

This was beautiful and sad and candid and I think everyone should read it.

4.5: Half a point off for the gooby art style, but the story is top tier!

Excellent!!! My exact type of Hot Stoner Final Girl Monster Horror~ Going to read the second one asap.

The art was nice...

Vivid, trippy, multiverse-y story surrounding a regular guy who's just trying to survive in a world that is heading towards climate decline. The art is well done and colorful, and visually I was very intrigued and motivated to continue the story. Recommend to fans of light-hearted sci-fis with a relatable hero.

Femme ennui in the midsts of space~

A sad and beautiful story regarding MMIW.

Such a cute story! Loved the characters and premise of this one~

An interesting way to look at global warming and the decline of natural spaces for animals. Even harder to read after the Eaton Fires this year. A novel story and a quick, compelling read.

I needed to read this book now, as many of Dex's questions are my own. A lovely, hopeful, and inspiring little book. Grateful to have found it.

Excellent and handy! My new niche is cookbook comics.

Nisi Shawl can build a world like no other.

Excellent. Ugly pretty art; a sick dystopian hellscape we're not very far off from; queer femmes in scratchy masks beating up pigs; “ACAB”-punks spitting out happy pills and dishing out justice.

Great art; cute story! Loved the history section about the lady comic geniuses who inspired the main characters.

A powerful graphic memoir that is unfortunately still relevant today—in a time of deportations, concentration camps, and politically targeted kidnappings. Citizen 13660 (the number provided to replace Okubo's family name in her family unit while at the camp) tells the reality of life when FDR banished all Japanese and Japanese American citizens—and even some Alaskan indigenous peoples—to internment camps across the western United States. Okubo writes that she began the project in order to highlight the mundane, the traumatic, and the humorous aspects of camp life and used the story as a way to process the things that were happening to her and other Japanese Americans at the time. This book needs to be read, especially by Americans. I came across Okubo's story and art while visiting the American Art Museum in Washington DC. Her work will be on display until August 17, 2025.

Excellent lil comic with a classic art style and super interesting premise. I would read more adventures of Oscar Zahn, supernatural investigator and cryptozoologist! The atmosphere is eerie and mysterious and haunted and cool. There were a few transitionary moments that left me confused or felt jarring, but apart from this I enjoyed my time.

2.5 stars. Difficult to trudge through and definitely went over my head in point and purpose. I kept wondering when I'd get to the end while reading.

4.5!

4.5 stars! A super lush and haunting story. A bit slow to start up but filled with everything dark and gruesome and enchanting.
This book engages with conversations on race, mestizaje, gentrification, and gendered roles.

Such beautiful illustrations and a cute and charming story!!

Truly an atrocious story. Like watching someone pick at their festered scabs. A car wreck at high speed where there is no hope for survival. Sickening, putrefying, humanity.

Really well done anthology!

4.5 stars! Interesting and compelling read about a man in his apartment above the streets of Bab el-Louk Cairo. It is written in little trailing interconnected vignettes of this man's thoughts and perspectives, but it took me a minute to grasp the thread. Beautiful artwork and a great colorway that really completed the experience.