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RELEASE DATE
10/01/2024
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2810206139
There are three of them. They are beautiful, they are young, Canadian, they are in New York. Dani and Zoe, high school friends, meet up to visit the city in the spring of their first year of college, in 2009; Fiona, a classmate from the first’s artistic course, joins the adventure. “With all these lights, it feels like broad daylight,” exclaims Zoe, fascinated by the neon lights of Times Square.† But the enthusiasm of the first evening quickly gives way to tensions and melancholy. Because, when traveling, how can you maintain the precarious balance of a friendship just out of adolescence, when a third element interferes? A bit of a brat, full of strong opinions, Fiona does not hold back from criticizing the tourist program planned by Dani, who had been waiting for this trip for so long. Zoe, dazzled by Fiona’s charm and confidence, abandons her friend. And what place is left for Dani, when her traveling companions are making out in the corners of museums or the youth hostel?
After Skim (Casterman, 2008) and This summer (Rue de Sèvres, 2014), cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, once again capture their heroines in a pivotal period, just before your twenties. When the slightest emotion can turn into tragedy, when a few days of travel are enough to turn everything upside down. Not quite adults, no longer teenagers either, Zoe, Dani and Fiona explore friendship – the kind that breaks hearts and turns everything upside down – self-awareness, their aspirations… and learn to set limits.
The title in original version, Roaming, refers as much to the wanderings of these young travelers in life and in the city, as to the roaming of telephone data in foreign countries – the detail is important. The same goes for the whole album: the most insignificant things contain a thousand symbols for these young girls at the dawn of their lives. And the smallest sentence contains hundreds of them. The dialogues, sometimes trivial, sometimes loaded with meaning, are devilishly lively.
To the black and white of the duo’s first two albums, Jillian Tamaki added mauve and a pinkish beige. With this limited palette and a curved and regular line, she does wonders to transcribe the excitement, the frustration, the discoveries – and the energy of New York, the fourth character in the story. So 448 pages teeming with life, and benefit from an airy layout and varied and ingenious framing. Close-ups of food, panoramic or low-angle views of emblematic places in New York, double pages rich in detail or sober and evocative… Splendid images, which immerse us entirely in this immersive, tender and exhilarating story.
2024-02-21 07:33:09
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