Knots Lisa J Fasol The Paris Review Hanawalt’s art

The Paris Review Hanawalt’s art balances the somber and the playful

As he traverses the 1980s Chicago suburbs on his skateboard

Author of Love and Rockets Lisa Hanawalt has an amazing ability to make the mundane disturbing and the strange seem normal

endearing tale of the thrill of falling in with someone new

loungewear-clad reverie is beset with a host of mundane problems: He dreads small talk with “the world’s biggest bore

Knots Lisa J Fasol The Paris Review Hanawalt’s artBy Colleen Frakes. Published by Harper Alley. Softcover, 240 pages, Colour, 2024. In this semiautobiographical graphic novel from award winning cartoonist Colleen Frakes, Norah must navigate not just her foiled dreams of blond hair but also the tangled mess her family has become. Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a good sister. Good at school. Good at, well, almost everything. So when Moms work brings her to a new town