Raised by ghosts
cartoonist: Briana Loewinsohn
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Publication date: February 2025
I’m very important here: comics with essays and cartoons in comics are not usually suitable for me. Raised by ghosts go through Briana LoewinsohnBut my general preferences broke my preferences – folded it and threw it away like a discarded note – I ended up in love with the book. Part of this is that friends in class, notes passed between late-night diaries, and generally creating art about your life are integral to the theme and plot of the story. Another part of the reason is that Loewinsohn earns the story by making the prose paragraphs and blends the perfect voice with writing as her young protagonist.
Yes, I really like it Raised by ghosts. The book is a semi-biological YA memoir style graphic novel that was from the early 1990s to the mid-1990s to share the protagonist of the name with the author. The whole comic is so good. I can call it an essential quality for “a little cowardly Wes Anderson”, although it’s also Loewinsohn’s unique style. One thing I appreciate about the comics in this book is that it looks as good as childhood (I’m really influenced by the way she mainly talks with her parents on corners or doors), because it does go deeper The protagonist’s psychology.
I think it’s not very dramatic to note that this book is probably the most interesting part of reality breaking the book, and its main character falls into the papers she spends a lot of time painting and writing notes. The decision to do this for a long time has given us a wealth of insights into our family dynamics, interests and relationships, and gives us a richer understanding of the wider world. Because of all we know about her, the ephemeral sequence provides a very deep internality that is often difficult to convey in the comics. It’s a bold choice and it pays off.
And I think that’s a good summary of the book, and what makes it work well. In many sequences, its readings are like a very well-developed age book that makes good use of its 90s setup. But it is also very likely that it is really possible to really move paragraphs in its character’s voice or dozens of pages or things set in her creative ID card or something that really needs to be a glimpse of its character’s thoughts, emotions, and experience in its character’s voice, and it is also very likely that it will really move paragraphs in its character’s voice .
The last thing I should note is that as someone who has just started high school for the first few years of a book, there are a lot of rich and wonderful details that bring me back to my life. The most important of these are things about the notes of triangles, which are everywhere in all our classrooms during that time and I haven’t considered it for many years.
In this book, people have such a deep feeling and wonderful attention to the details, so I am happy to make the highest suggestions.
It is now possible to raise through ghosts.
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