A suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love. The Guardian,Best Graphic Novels of 2022
Publishers Weekly,Best Graphic Novels of 2022
Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years â roughly contemporaneously with the authorâs own journey as a motherâ wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse.
The book opens with âWatergate Sue,â originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine over six months in 2007. Spanning two generations of mothers/daughters, Eveâs obsession with Richard Nixonâs Watergate scandal throughout 1973 heightens her self-doubt about whether she wants to raise more children (resonantly mirroring the anxiety many of us had while doom scrolling our way through the Trump administration). Some 30 years later, her daughter, Sue, is now grown and beginning her own family and attempting to reconcile her motherâs experience with her own.
âCats in Serviceâ is a contemporary fable about how a death in the family leads a young couple to adopt several cats who have been expertly trained to tend to their every need. âThe Egg Roomâ profiles middle-aged Florence, caught between dreams of how her life might have unfolded and the shrunken reality. âThe Golden Lassoâ turns the focus to adolescence, using rock climbing as a set piece for a story about innocence lost, while âKorin Vossâ chronicles a few months in the life of a single mother in the late 1940s.
Taken collectively, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelsoâs unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each storyâs needs. Full-color illustrations throughout
Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Graphic Novels
- Humorous
- Graphic Novels
Publisher : Fantagraphics
Author : Kelso, Megan
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2022-11-10
Number Of Pages : 203
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1683966708
ISBN-13 : 9781683966708
Item weight : 2.12 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 8.8 in x 10.3 in
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