This is a very impressive debut by Zoe Thorogood at only 21 years old. The artwork has crisp lines and often is accompanied only by one accent color at a time, as we follow Billie and the interesting folks she meets, and who impact her in different ways, as she travels around London. The bittersweet message about the power of creating art - creating something new - no matter what, along with the positive messaging about not letting one's disability hamper one's life, is a powerful one and uniquely told in this story. Admittedly, it was a little bit on the nose at the end, but it worked overall. The reveal of the 10 paintings at the end had great payoff. I hated and misunderstood why Billie is choosing to be homeless? Like she has an apartment and made friends with her housemates but then she just leaves and lives on the street when she doesn’t have to. It felt like it was meant to be quirky, and it was unnecessary. Incarcerated. Retired. Dead. Nothing's gonna stop these Rogues from getting theirs, as the Flash’s deadly enemies come out of retirement for one last—and potentially fatal—score! tratta di una lettura a fumetti molto carina, con personaggi freschi e ben delineati. E che dire delle illustrazioni, sono fantastiche

The Impending Blindness Of Billie Scott (Paperback) - Waterstones

A woman with severe social anxiety has been accepted at a gallery, only while she’s making the paintings, she’s mugged, with the result being impending blindness. The main journey is her struggle to figure out if she wants to, or if it’s viable to complete the gallery showing beforehand. Billie Scott is a young woman who lives in shared housing, but keeps to herself, holing up in her room and focusing on honing her art at the cost of human relations and, indeed, being out in the world. Two major events slam her at the same time — she has the opportunity for her first gallery show and has to create a body of work in a limited amount of time, but she also finds out that some vision problems she’s recently encountered point to impending blindness.But art is a lot like life, and it’s by allowing yourself to encounter the unknown that either becomes enriching, partly because that’s when you learn new things and find new ways to look at the old things, but also because it can require creative solutions and that’s the situation where most people meet failure. Billie Scott has spent her life fearing failure but when confronted by impending blindness she realizes that you eventually encounter the unknown whether you do so intentionally or not. Her 10-portrait project becomes a crash-course in facing the unknown and rising to the challenges it pushes at her. This memorable cast of characters also provides Thorogood with an opportunity to create a kind of art within the art as she draws the sketches of the subjects that lead to Billie’s paintings. This comic shows that she is fascinated by people and their inner workings, and Billie Scott has a sense of hope and wonder despite its protagonist’s loss of sight. Along with Billie, Thorogood populates her comic with a wonderful cast of characters from folk punk artist Rachel (who keeps getting thrown out of bars) and bride-to-be Sara to Falklands war veteran Arthur and mysterious “cool girl” Iris. Billie builds relationships with them that directly influences her art. Billie Scott was a shut-in who figured she could live her life after she became a successful artist, but once her big break happens she finds out she's going blind. So now she's off to live her last weeks of sighted life and try to do something with her big art show as she questions what direction the rest of her life is going to take. It's wholesome, it's sad, it's happy, it's even inspiring! Finishing it makes you want to go out and create some art of your own with whatever passion you have.

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The story follows a young adult (I don't actually know how old she is) artist who has been granted gallery space for ten paintings. Only, when she goes out to find subjects, she gets injured and begins going blind as a result. Now she only has a few weeks to make ten paintings, so she goes around different cities to find people to paint. A sweet and moving story. Billie Scott has finally gotten her big break in the art world: 10 original paintings for her own gallery in two weeks. But tragically, she soon learns she is going blind. Billie leaves the comfort of her apartment in search of ten portraits and of course who she meets along the way will change her too. A few cheesy unoriginal passages about how life doesn’t stop at your hobby and that people can be interesting on a series of cute drawings, and this boring (and thankfully short) story is done.A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home story—set between a New Jersey suburb and Seoul, South Korea. Also, nothing of the stuff that supposedly helps 'build the story' actually did that.. Like why was Billie living off the streets all of a sudden? I thought she had just become besties with her roommates (who didn't know she existed until a minute before that). Oh wait, it was (kind of) explained close to the end of the graphic novel, but I guess I just stopped buying whatever the author was selling at that point. From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the decade! The introvert hits the road, meeting colorful characters and really trying to get to know them before painting their portraits. And, as the cliche goes, she might just learn about herself too. It's all a little too on the nose, and I was slow to warm to it, but the characters, art, and dialogue won me over by the end. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what Zoe Thorogood does next. A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagnosis journeys to finding community—from autistic contributors.

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Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed artist Greg Smallwood continue the noir examination of a classic DC character! This was NOT my kind of book I guess.. Currently giving it two stars, because I find it physically hurting to give one, but honestly? I might still change this rating in the end. There were so many interesting characters. I especially loved Rachel, because of how unapologetic she was with performing her music. I wish I was that confident in my writing. As others have mentioned, the small text made Billie's narration and the dialogue difficult to read; even though it was probably intentional, it did at times affect my enjoyment of the book. Ironically, I also wonder about that from an accessibility standpoint.Ma quando tutto sembrava ormai statico e piatto giunse alla sua porta una bella notizia: la famosa galleria New Arts l’aveva ingaggiata per realizzare dei dipinti. It really says something that I wanted to DNF this graphic novel very very badly. Usually with graphic novels, while they might be boring they are enjoyable enough for me by means of the art to get through. But this one really frustrated me.