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By Natalie d’Arbeloff (NdA Press)
ISBN 978-0-9064-8713-6
Natalie d’Arbeloff is an artist, printmaker and author who creates comic strips on her blog featuring, I’m assuming, her semi-autobiographical character Blaugustine. In this book she has a series of chats with God – a friendly, mild-mannered, clean-shaven chap – about the kind of things that you would – if you’d been granted an interview. You know… ‘What’s it all about? Why does bad stuff happen? Are you really there?’
This gently philosophical – rather than theosophical – examination is whimsical and introspective, but never ponderous, delivered in a big, simple cartoon style and vivid, eye-catching colour, reminiscent of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine film. With an easy humour that would be appreciated by older children of all ages with the same questions.
There aren’t really any big new answers but to paraphrase Bob Dylan it’s not really about answers, but how we seek them, right?
See also www.nataliedarbeloff.com and www.nataliedabeloff.com/blaugustine.html
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