DESCRIPTION:
by Miss Lask-Gross
136 pages; soft cover; partial color
Fantagraphics Books is proud to showcase Miss Lasko-Gross in her graphic-novel debut.
Escape From Special is the coming-of-age story of Melissa, who we first meet as a small
child and depart from at the end of the book just before she enters high school. Drawn in
black and white and washed in moody blues and full spectrum grays, Lasko-Gross’s art,
with its detailed backgrounds and expressive, clean-line characters, exquisitely conveys
the story’s blend of humor (sometimes of the gross-out variety) and keenly observed
insights. Miss Lasko-Gross, who has the sensibility of a love child of Linda Barry and
David B. midwifed by Judy Blume, has created a graphic novel that should appeal not
only to the growing readers of graphic novels, but to teens grappling with similar
unresolved questions. |