Queen of the Black Black TP - Softcover

Kelso, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160699459X ISBN 13: 9781606994597

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Synopsis

• Queen of the Black Black collects Megan Kelso's self-published early Girlhero stips as well as a few from other sources. Fans will remember her other works: the "Watergate Sue" serial in the New York Times' Sunday Magazine and Artichoke Tales. In this new collection, Kelso scrutinizes bicycle messengers, venereal diseases, infidelity, unwanted pregnancies, temporary work assignments, family reunions, and classroom daydreams in subtle and unexpected manners, setting herself technical challenges such as depicting music in comics (the virtuoso "The Daddy Mask," with its sensuous gray swirls of sound on the page), integrating lettering into artwork in creative ways, and generally working her way toward what would become her mature style.

About this title

About the Author:

Megan Kelso lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and daughter. Her books include Queen of the Black Black, The Squirrel Mother, and Artichoke Tales.

Review:

“Megan Kelso’s [comics] are smart, smart, smart. [Her artwork] is stately and deliberate, but also conveys a sense of urgency.”
- Ms. Magazine

“...[Megan Kelso] repeatedly turns up little rocks of human experience and chronicles what’s going on underneath, reintroducing us to feelings, sensations, and experiences we’d forgotten we’d had but recognize as if they happened this morning.”
- Sean T. Collins, The Comics Journal

“Kelso’s work radiates a warmth, poetry, sympathy, and simultaneously earthy and otherworldly essence that few comics creators have brought to the table with such quiet confidence and grace. The closest comic in recent memory to match Artichoke Tales, both in breadth and depth, is Jeff Smith’s Bone. [Grade] A.”
- The Onion A.V. Club

“Rather than a narrative arc, with ascensions and declines, Artichoke Tales feels like a series of expansions. The characters and their world grow to envelop the reader in a singular, charming way.”
- Paul Constant, The Stranger

“Anyone looking for a masterful example of the short story in comics would do well to give this a try. Beautifully written and well illustrated, this a wonderful portfolio of work from a creator showing a deep well of promise from the start.”
- Grovel

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 160699459X
• ISBN 13: 9781606994597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Groth Gary