The Con Artists: Luke Healey

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The spare art style suited the story well, and while this wasn't as hilarious as I was expecting, it was a good character study with some pretty funny moments.

With enormous apprehension we have also categorised this story as a “romance” comic: not because there is any romantic love, but because the main characters interact in a relationship which is committed, unilaterally tender, and abusive. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. Luke Healy is a master at creating genuine characters with stories that never fail to pull me in and keep me there. It’s definitely an interesting exploration of fraught interpersonal relationships complicated by anxiety. Healy gives the characters space to breathe, to allow the reader the space to sit and think with them.

The most enjoyable aspect of this book for me were Healy's illustrations, which were really charming. Healy's depiction of toxic and manipulative relationships and how those relationships end is familiar and as we know relationships even mostly onesided ones often don't end in a way we find satisfying. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics.

This was an interesting concept and the simple art style was nice, but it just didn’t quite do it for me. We appreciate that comedians, at least in our experience, often use comedy to master and anxieties, as a way of venting or exploring the things that trouble them in their personal lives. Moving in with and caring for his estranged childhood friend quickly starts to chip away at Frank's sense of self, as well as Giogio's carefully curated online persona. com/books/2022/may/23/the-con-artists-by-luke-healy-review-a-beautifully-observed-masterpiece and Drawn and Quarterly https://drawnandquarterly. The Con Artists by Luke Healy is my favourite graphic novel of the year so far, and to be honest, it might just be among my favourite comics ever.

It’s worried Frank, not Giorgio, who asks this question, but almost immediately he begins to regret the offer. It’s a nice, short read and I appreciate the layers Healey is trying to peel back and deconstruct but I don’t feel like I would be reading it over either as an autobiographical work or as a portrayal of mental health. I think this was a really great portrayal of mental illness, and hard or toxic relationships, but that’s about it. That part was a little confusing because a lot of this graphic novel is Frankie talking about his mental illness. I only gave it three stars instead of two because I did like Frankie and hopeful that the author puts out a sequel that is a lot more in depth.

Recommended for those who like package deliveries, drunken nights and friendly parents of childhood friends. As Frank moves in with Giorgio to help him recover, he begins to suspect that the perfect life Giorgio has been sharing online may be nothing more than a web of lies and scams. There were many, many things to unpack, and while they were quite interesting, I don't feel we got the time or attention needed to get into them. A frank depiction of being anxiously alive with deeply human threads and occasional 4th wall breaks. When it comes to the portrayl of mental illness you can tell it's something the author has experience with, though I didn't love the somewhat dissmissive epilogue.Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).