![]() ![]() ![]() What happened to the rich new resident? Find out for yourself as you join the girls on another hilarious, action-packed adventure through small-town America. Candy Apple Blessings is a cheery seasonal board book that explores the many reasons we love fall Including a charming embellished cover and whimsical art. With their bottle-blond sidekick Teeny at their side, Miss May and Chelsea will have to unravel the riddle before anyone else turns up dead. So Chelsea and Miss may have to keep their efforts to solve the murder top-secret, or they could end up in jail. Wayne has turned against Chelsea, despite his obvious affection for her. Worst of all, hunky Detective Wayne Hudson has it all pinned on KP, an old family friend who works at the orchard. There’s a cryptic ransom note, a bereaved widow and a big, mysterious mansion at the center of the investigation. But as the Candy Apple Festival nears, a wealthy newcomer brings trouble to Pine Grove.Īny notions of relaxation are pushed aside when the snobby big city millionaire turns up dead and Miss May recruits Chelsea to solve yet another mystery. And the suspects are too many to count.Ĭhelsea just wants to spend more time settling into life on the apple orchard, bonding with Miss May and recovering from heartbreak. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters.There’s another dead body on the orchard. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life, both the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. The drawing is visceral, symbolic, and naturalistic. The irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility, sexuality, choice, and mortality. It begins in subtle, tonal shades of black ink, introduces color slowly over the next 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds as one of the most formally inventive comics in the history of the medium. Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant, the emotional turmoil of her father’s cancer diagnosis and eventual death, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. Self-described as “an infertile, high-femme, low income, non-biological Jewish mom, dyke drama queen, and ectopic pregnancy survivor,” the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir. “Shira Spector has created an ecstatic book about a life lived deeply, fully, and with the extreme bravery we must all have if we want to truly love and be loved.” – Eleanor Davis, How To Be Happy The inventive combination of text and drawing works perfectly to draw the reader in.” – Roz Chast, Can’t We talk About Something More Pleasant? “Shira Spector’s deeply moving graphic memoir is about love and sorrow, and the wondrousness of being alive despite everything. ![]() … book that will change the literary landscape in 2021.” – O The Oprah Magazine “Every page of this formally inventive, kaleidoscopic graphic memoir is a work of art in and of itself. ![]() Open it up to any page and you’re met with an explosion of color, images, and words.” – Book Riot “There are so many styles, so many layers to both the art and the story. “Using lithesome, intricate drawings and mixed-media collages, Spector debuts with a graphic memoir of desire and loss that expresses emotions viscerally and with a tactile immediacy.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) Please click the link below to join the webinar: Preorder Red Rock Baby Candy and receive a signed copy! Join us on Friday, March 26 at 6pm PT when Shira Spector is joined by Phoebe Gloeckner to discuss her graphic memoir, Red Rock Baby Candy, on Zoom! ![]()
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