The control over her line that was crucial to developing her mature style is obvious, allowing her to become bolder and more experimental with the likes of page layouts, lettering and whimsical design decisions. The mix of color and crisp black & white in An Age of License makes this the first book of hers that truly showcases her abilities as a draftsman and a cartoonist. Relish saw her move into her mature style, though her line was occasionally overtaken by the First Second house coloring approach. She has markedly improved since French Milk, a book that was hobbled by the occasional and unfortunate juxtaposition of drawings and photos. Our next meeting will be February 27, when we will discuss October by China Mieville.First, let me discuss Knisley's many virtues as a cartoonist. Her graphic memoirs include Something New: Ta les from a Makeshift Bride and Kid Gloves. Her travelogues ( French Milk, An Age of License, and Displacement) and web comic series ( Stop Paying Attention) have been lauded by critics, and her combined work has built her a devoted readership for her honest and thoughtful true-life stories. It was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into five languages. Her Alex Award-winning graphic novel, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, tells the story of her childhood steeped in the food industry. Lucy Knisley is the author and illustrator of beloved graphic novels about memory, identity, food, and family. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions.Ī welcome read for anyone who ever felt more passion for a sandwich than is strictly speaking proper, Relish is a graphic novel for our time: it invites the reader to celebrate food as a connection to our bodies and a connection to the earth, rather than an enemy, a compulsion, or a consumer product. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life.
The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. The Nonfiction Book Club is hosted by a different Third Place Books bookseller each month! Get 20% off the selected title each month.
Join Third Place bookseller Niki to discuss Relish, cartoonist Lucy Knisley's graphic memoir of a passionate upbringing surrounded by food and family, including an illustrated recipe in each chapter.
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