{"id":31953,"date":"2025-02-04T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=31953"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:17:51","slug":"i-love-this-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/02\/04\/i-love-this-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"i love this part"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Tillie Walden<\/strong> (Avery Hill)
\nISBN: 978-1-91039-532-5(HB) 978-1-91039-517-2 (TPB)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to remind readers of another imminently impending St. Valentines\u2019 Day. I\u2019m stifling my usual curmudgeonly attitudes for a while and re-recommending a book that\u2019s solidly on the side of being in love, but not so disingenuous as to assure you that it\u2019s all hearts and flowers…<\/em><\/p>\n

Sweet but never cloying or calorific, i love this part<\/strong> deliciously pictorializes the happy, introspective, contemplative and aspirational moments of two schoolgirls who have found each other. Shared dreams, idle conversations, disputes and landmark first steps, even fights and break-ups are seen, weathered and sorted. Novelty, timidity, apprehension, societal pressure and even some unnecessary shame come into it, but generally this is just how young people learn to love and what that inevitably entails. Somehow the trappings shift all the time but clearly nothing really changes…
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\nApart from the astoundingly graceful and inviting honesty of the tale, the most engaging factor is author Tillie Walden\u2019s brilliantly cavalier dismissal of visual reality. These interactions are all backdropped by wild changes in dimension and perspective, abrupt shifts in location and landscape and shots of empty spaces all adding a sense of distance and whimsy to very familiar proceedings.<\/p>\n

Walden is a great admirer of Winsor McCay\u2019s Little Nemo<\/strong> so fellow afficionados will feel at home even if neophytes might experience the odd sensation of disorientation and trepidation. Like being in love, I suppose…<\/p>\n

Gloriously celebrating not just the relationships but also in the sheer joy of drawing what you feel, Walden is still a relative newcomer – albeit a prolific and immensely gifted one – who has garnered heaps of acclaim and awards. Whether through her fiction or autobiographical works (frequently combined in the same stories), she always engenders a feeling of absolute wonder, combined with a fresh incisive view and measured, compelling delivery in terms of both story and character. Her artwork is a sheer delight.
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\nBefore globally turning heads with such unforgettable, deeply personal tales as On a Sunbeam<\/strong>, A City Inside<\/strong>, Spinning<\/strong>, Mini Meditations on Creativity<\/strong>, and Are You Listening?<\/strong> she followed up on her Ignatz Award-winning debut graphic novel The End of Summer<\/strong> with this fluffy yet barbed coming-of-age tale, and has latterly expanded her oeuvre with gems including Alone in Space<\/strong>, My Parents Won\u2019t Stop Talking<\/strong> and the Clementine<\/strong> series (three books and counting…). In 2023 she became Vermont\u2019s youngest ever Cartoon Laureate, and will hold the post until 2026.<\/p>\n

i love this part<\/strong> is charming, moving, sad, funny and lovely. You\u2019d have to be bereft of vision and afflicted with a heart of stone to reject this comic masterpiece; available in hardback, softcover and digital formats: a romantic treat no one should miss.
\n\u00a9 Tillie Walden 2016. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tillie Walden (Avery Hill) ISBN: 978-1-91039-532-5(HB) 978-1-91039-517-2 (TPB) It\u2019s time to remind readers of another imminently impending St. Valentines\u2019 Day. I\u2019m stifling my usual curmudgeonly attitudes for a while and re-recommending a book that\u2019s solidly on the side of being in love, but not so disingenuous as to assure you that it\u2019s all hearts … <\/p>\n

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