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Cargando... Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir (edición 2014)por Liz Prince (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Torn between 3 and 4 stars, because I liked it, but I didn't really like it. It does a lot of interesting things, but I was pretty weirded out by sections of it -- I'm really not the target audience for this in a lot of ways. Also, I struggled a lot with the art style - the simple line drawing was great for a lot of the time, but the font choice frequently made me dizzy. Overall, I appreciated that the author is quite candid about being heterosexual, cisgender, and gender non-conforming, and that these are things that can go together. And loved the specific details of negotiating with the Catholic school principal to be allowed to wear button shirt and tie rather than dress to mass. Liz Prince grew up repudiating all things 'girly' and wishing to be a tomboy. I enjoyed it — it has a proper arc, which isn't always the case in autobio comics. The drawings are very basic, but work well. It may not delve as deeply as it might into the topics it raises, but it has a charm and sincerity which I really liked. I wanted to like this more than I really did, so I'm going to err on the 2-star side of 2.5. Art was solid. Prince starts to get at some things that other media doesn't capture about what it's like to be a tomboy (especially in terms of how you relate to other tomboys and other girls), but fails to deliver anything really thoughtful or insightful. On a personal level, I'm really jealous that Prince figured out formal clothes so early on---I was just too amiable as a kid, I wore dresses if I felt like I had to. When I figured out that formal clothes could be a men's shirt, vest, and tie, I was almost an adult. But it made me so much happier than I ever thought I could be. On the downside, this panel stood out as *so* alienating and frustrating (sorry for the iffy scan): [[The stereotype of the butch lesbian has plagued me my whole life, but I don't dress like a boy to attract girls: I dress like a boy because it feels natural to me.]] Prince, have you ever in your life talked to any queer tomboys/butches? I can assure you that we don't "dress like boys to attract girls"---we feel exactly the same as you. It just feels natural to me, too. Argh.
s there any grade-school struggle more defining than the desire to fit in? In her first full-length graphic novel, award-winning comics artist Prince tells the story of her lifelong battle with gender stereotypes through the lens of her tomboy childhood, marked by a preference for male role models, slouchy oversize clothes, and some serious bullying. As a kid, Prince chafed at femininity—“Given the chance, I’d much rather wield a sword than wear a tiara”—but her offbeat choices made it hard for her to find friends or a boyfriend. She starts to believe that her disinterest in being girly is what makes her unlikable, and soon she feels embarrassed by being a girl altogether. Luckily, she eventually finds a group of people who appreciate her differences and don’t expect her to act a particular way just because she is a girl. Prince’s tongue-in-cheek black-and-white line drawings, in a charming style reminiscent of Jeffrey Brown’s autobiographical comics, pack a punch in this empowering memoir that should have ample appeal for any kid who feels like an outsider. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
Tomboy. Una chica ruda acompaña a una galardonada artista y autora a través de los años de su infancia y adolescencia, y explora, con humor, honestidad e intensidad, lo que significa "ser una chica". Su autora, Liz Prince, ha sido ilustradora para Adventure Time, Steven Universe y Regular Show. Al crecer, Liz Prince no era una niña muy femenina que digamos, no se ponía tutús rosas ni jugaba a ser una dulce princesa como las demás niñas de su vecindario. Pero tampoco era exactamente uno de los chicos. Era más bien algo en medio. Pero con las presiones de la secundaria, la preparatoria, los papás, la amistad y el romance empujándola hacia todos lados, ese "en medio" no era precisamente un lugar fácil en el cual estar. La crìtica ha opinado: "Divertida y cercana mirada a aquello con lo que cada niño tiene que lidiar en cierto punto de su desarrollo, descifrando quién eres verdaderamente por dentro cuando todos los demás sólo ven lo que creen que deberías ser por fuera." -Jeffrey Brown, autor de Clumsy, Jedi Academy y Darth Vader and Son- "ESPECTACULAR. Un libro que hace pensar seriamente a cualquier persona sobre los roles de género predeterminados por la sociedad." -Kirkus Reviews- "Liz Prince retrata la incomodidad y la humillación de la infancia y la adolescencia con una precisión maravillosa (por no decir dolorosa). Todo niño que tome este libro en sus manos estará al tanto de los secretos que la mayoría de nosotros no aprende sino hasta que es demasiado tarde, y cualquier adulto que lo lea traerá a la memoria una verdad esencial: que está muy bien ser exactamente quien queremos ser, no importa cuán raros nos consideren los demás. Tomboy. Una chica ruda no es un libro de autoayuda pero debería serlo." -Julia Wertz, autora de Drinking at the Movies y The Infinite Wait- "Liz Prince manda las normas de género al diablo. Una encantadora memoria que mueve a la reflexión y que no puedes dejar de leer, además de llevar en sí una gran importancia." -Ariel Shrag, autor de Adam y Potential- ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONGrowing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing Pretty Pretty princess like the other girls in her neighborhood. But she wasn't exactly one of the guys either, as she quickly learned when her Little League baseball coach exiled her to the outfield instead of letting her take the pitcher's mound. Liz was somewhere in the middle, and "Tomboy" is the story of her struggle to find the place where she belonged." Tomboy" is a graphic novel about refusing gender boundaries, yet unwittingly embracing gender stereotypes at the same time, and realizing later in life that you can be just as much of a girl in jeans and a T-shirt as you can in a pink tutu. A memoir told anecdotally, "Tomboy "follows author and zine artist Liz Prince through her early childhood into adulthood and explores her ever-evolving struggles and wishes regarding what it means to "be a girl." From staunchly refuting anything she perceived as being "girly" to the point of misogyny, to discovering throughthe punk community that your identity is whatever you make of it, regardless of your gender, "Tomboy" is as much humorous and honest as it is at points uncomfortable and heartbreaking." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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skilled graphic storytelling with thought-provoking perspective, I can definitely see why this book keeps coming up in all the best lists. ( )