Queen of the Black Black

Release on 2011-07-13 | by Megan Kelso

QUEEN OF THE BLACK BLACK 1997 This story is inspired by the work of the sculptor, Louise Nevelson. It is not in any way biographical though. The story has nothing to do with Nevelson's life. However, the poem at the beginning of the ...

Queen of the Black Black
  • Author: Megan Kelso
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • ISBN: 9781606994597
  • Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Page: 160
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Queen of the Black Black

Megan Kelso was a classic DIY cartoonist/publisher, who crafted and self-published her popular minicomic Girlhero from 1991 to 1996. Queen of the Black Black, which collects these early Girlhero strips (as well as a few from other sources) and was originally published in a limited edition twelve years ago (now long out of print), provides an engrossing chronicle of an ambitious young cartoonist carefully developing her own unique style and approach. In this volume, 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. The title story, “Queen of the Black Black,” rendered in lush gray tones, explores the fraught relationship between the aging, demanding queen of a fairy-tale realm and a hornblower whom she takes under her wing.

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