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...Road to America" (Drawn and Quarterly; 56pp.; $14.95), a graphic novella by the French artist known as Baru (né Hervé Baruléa) hopes to make a worldwide impact this June when it gets simultaneously published in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. A sports comic with themes of race and identity, set at a time reminiscent to current events, "Road to America" goes for the knockout, but wins instead by decision...
...surgery. A choir needs a pianist. Small stuff makes headlines at the "Wheatstone Mercury," a provincial English newspaper and the locus of Andi Watson's "Slow News Day" (Slave Labor Graphics; 24pp.; $3.50each) whose sixth and final issue appeared last week. Watson has simultaneously released a single-issue novella, "Dumped" (Oni Press; 56pp.; $5.95), which along with SND and last year's "Breakfast After Noon," (see TIME.comix review) make a loose trilogy about the lives of England's urban, middle-class singles. Just as the Mercury turns small events into front-page news, Watson makes smart, compelling comix...
Marcel Möring’s The Dream Room is a novella about the experience of David, one such twelve-year-old. In just over 100 pages, Möring manages to effortlessly evoke a portrait of the inner life of an entire family as seen through his eyes...
...novella is narrated by David. It is his voice that recalls the history of his parents’ life, together and separate, just as their marriage is in the process of dissolving. David works alongside them during a rainy summer when the family’s only means of income is creating model planes...
...novella is divided into four chapters, with the last taking place years later when David is a grown man in a romantic relationship of his own. The real acheivement of Möring’s writing is realized in this final chapter. In a few short pages, Möring describes with every nuance how experiences and recollections in the narrative of twelve-year-old David add up to make adult David, showing how relationships, to self and others, evolve...