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Artichoke Tales

Megan Kelso

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Prior to cartoonist Megan Kelso's long-awaited 2022 release, Who Will Make the Pancakes, Kelso spent six years creating her first long-form graphic novel, 2010's Artichoke Tales. The book, a fantastic family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent, was a critical smash named to many "Best of 2010" lists. Fantagraphics is proud to bring this perennial classic back in print with a new paperback edition.

Artichoke Tales is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war. It takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair. Influenced in equal parts by Little House on the Prairie, The Thorn Birds, Dharma Bums, and Cold Mountain, Kelso weaves a moving story about family amidst war. Kelso's visual storytelling uniquely combines delicate linework with rhythmic page compositions, creating a dramatic tension between intimate, ruminative character studies and the unflinching depiction of the consequences of war and carnage, lending cohesion and resonance to a generational epic.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • Publish Date: Dec 20th, 2022
  • Pages: 232
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 6.80in - 1.10in - 1.00lb
  • EAN: 9781683966753
  • Recommended age: 16-UP
  • Categories: • Literary• Fantasy - General

About the Author

Kelso, Megan: - Megan Kelso has been drawing comics for over 30 years. In 2007, she was invited by The New York Times to serialize her "Watergate Sue" comic as part of the weekly "Funny Pages" feature. In 2019, she was selected for a public art commission for Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Her books include The Squirrel Mother (2006), Artichoke Tales (2010), and Queen of the Black Black (2011). She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and daughter.

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Out now: Artichoke Tales by @megangirlhero! We just brought this coming-of-age story back in a new paperback edition and it’s lovely ❤️ https://t.co/noUW5cY454 https://t.co/1IcSrNCpKX

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Megan Kelso's Artichoke Tales "is truly magical and awaits your avid, appreciative attention and consumption". A generational saga of stories within stories, all beguiling. @megangirlhero @fantagraphics https://t.co/BYqWiIlJIy https://t.co/mTx7ML5GDk

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Providing support to artists since 2007. Occasional table flipper. Former publisher. Happily unverified.

Koyama Provides a $1,500 CDN Grant to Megan Kelso! "I was late to the party in discovering Megan's work. I liked her ARTICHOKE TALES and more recently was blown away by her etched and painted installation, called CROW COMMUTE. Full post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca49-yqLQ3v/ https://t.co/hTD81SG6P3

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Praise for this book

Surprising and wonderful... Kelso's ligne claire artwork is consistently sweet and airy... The approach provides a likable surface for a story with much darker and stickier depths, about a land whose cultural heritage is rotting away in the aftermath of a civil war.--Douglas Wolk "The New York Times Book Review"
A coming-of-age story about a young girl from a family caught between sides in a civil war, set in a world similar to ours but where people have artichoke leaves instead of hair. ... Its delicate, rather impish black-and-white linework comes from the creator of the subtle and poignant Squirrel Mother.--Martha Cornog "Library Journal"

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