Copyright Date:
2016
Edition Date:
2016
Release Date:
12/01/15
Illustrator:
Treiman, Lissa,, Campbell, Jim
Pages:
1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN:
Publisher: 1-608-86789-7 Perma-Bound: 0-605-96687-7
ISBN 13:
Publisher: 978-1-608-86789-9 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-96687-1
Dewey:
Fic
Dimensions:
27 cm.
Subject Heading:
Teenage girls. Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile fiction.
Women college students. Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile fiction.
Female friendship. Comic books, strips, etc. Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls. Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
Women college students. Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
Female friendship. Comic books, strips, etc. Fiction.
Language:
English
Reviews:
Starred Review ALA Booklist
(Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2016)
Starred Review Daisy, Susan, and Esther are best friends in their first year at university, and together they face down everything from ex-boyfriends to bad colds to Neanderthal bros who deserve a powerful education in the consequences of oafish male gaze. Though exaggerated facial expressions and cartoonish occurrences are frequent, the core of the story is the heartening friendship between the three girls, whose experiences are grounded in realism. Daisy has a comical run-in with her nana after a wild night out, but the story arc deals more with her burgeoning sexuality than appearing put-together for her elderly relative. Susan targets her erstwhile best friend in a misguided attempt at revenge, but she gradually realizes that forgiveness (however begrudging) makes for a powerful alliance. The overall tone is lighthearted, however, and Allison's pitch-perfect teenage snark is the ideal match for Treiman and Cogar's lush, candy-colored scenes full of rich, character-building detail and marvelous background action. With a masterful hand, they telegraph hilarious visual jokes with the subtlest of cues, like a raised eyebrow or flop of hair, and their figures are full of motion and vitality. A pairing of art and dialogue like this is uncommonly good, and with limitless potential for further stories, there's happily plenty more down the road.
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.
Giant Days Volume 1, created and written by longtime webcomic creator John Allison (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round) and Disney artist Lissa Treiman collects the first four issues of the critically-acclaimed series from BOOM! Box.