I really loved this. A very tactile collection of varying approaches, with wonderful cartooning realizing a delightful authorial voice extremely confident in its casual, intimately-observational nature. A pleasure.
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A lovely piece of curation, with a loose organizing principle allowing its overall lineup to not subvert so much as wholly annihilate expectations: a gorgeous selection of comics, each defining "comics" differently from the last.
Like the preceding Che Guevara book, this one is too preoccupied by the externality of perception to say something profound about its subject; Evita is not a human life but a savior, an icon briefly come to Earth. Stunning art by the Breccias, though.
I really enjoyed this one. Mai takes a classic narrative and filters it through her hyper-casual, diaristic voice, injecting it with a new beautiful form of emotional urgency, with lovely cartooning.