{"id":1084,"date":"2007-09-19T18:45:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2007-09-19T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:51:35","slug":"yume-dream-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/19\/yume-dream-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Yu+Me Dream, Vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/yume-dream-volume-1.jpg\" alt=\"Yu+Me Dream, Vol 1\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Megan Rose Gedris<\/strong> (Rosalarian Productions)<br \/>\nISBN: 0-9794007-0-8<\/p>\n<p>The Worldwide web is becoming an increasingly important factor in the production of comic strips, and a growing number of strips that appear online are eventually making it back into the realm of physical artefacts as trade paperback collections. One such is the award winning <strong>Yu+Me Dream<\/strong> which won creator Megan Rose Gedris the 2006 Prism Comics Press Grant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is how I can be staring at black and white pages instead of peering myopically at a screen<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Thompson is a good Catholic schoolgirl (eighteen years old), although a bit of a class misfit. Consequently, she&#8217;d much rather spend her time asleep and dreaming, rather than have to face hostile classmates, her nasty step-mom and Nuns.<\/p>\n<p>Her fantasy world becomes less enticing when a new girl moves in next door and she finds a soul-mate and ally. Lia Riolo plays an increasingly large part in both her real and dream-life and slowly Fiona must deal with the suspicion that she might be Gay and falling in love. Does Lia suspect? Could she possibly ever share these feelings?<\/p>\n<p>Gently funny and sad by turns this charmingly stylish cartoon tale deals with the topic of gender identity in a forthright but non-exploitative way that never forgets the First Rule: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be Entertaining\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. This first volume also contains fan art, a cover gallery, behind the scenes commentary, a mini-comic dream sequence and that most beloved staple of girl&#8217;s comics, Cut-out-and-dress paper dolls. Good stuff well done.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2007 Megan Rose Gedris. All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nYU+ME: dream contains materials originally published online at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yume-comic.com\">http:\/\/yume-comic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Megan Rose Gedris (Rosalarian Productions) ISBN: 0-9794007-0-8 The Worldwide web is becoming an increasingly important factor in the production of comic strips, and a growing number of strips that appear online are eventually making it back into the realm of physical artefacts as trade paperback collections. One such is the award winning Yu+Me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/19\/yume-dream-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yu+Me Dream, Vol 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}