It's So Magic
(Libby/OverDrive eComic, Kindle)
Author
Contributors
Barry, Lynda Author
Published
Drawn & Quarterly , 2022.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive
Available Platforms
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Description
Maybonne Mullen is "riding on a bummer" according to her little sister, Marlys. As much as teenage Maybonne prays and tries she just can't connect to the magic of living. How can she when there's so much upheaval at home and school, not to mention the world at large? And yet Marlys always seems able to tap into it. In It's So Magic, the Mullen family dynamics are in flux. Uncle John makes a brief return to town to the delight of the girls. Freddy is finally reunited with his sisters. Marlys falls in love for the first time. And after they finally settle into a routine at their grandmother's, the Mullen siblings' find out that their mother might be ready to take them back in. With war in the background and precarious parental support, the siblings long for peace, finding it in the small things like grocery-store turkey-drawing contests and fishing trips. Narrated by Maybonne, Marlys, and Freddy, It's So Magic captures Lynda Barry's unparalleled ability to depict the magic of youth experiencing firsts in a world that contains as much humor as it does hardship.
More Details
Format
eComic, Kindle
Street Date
09/06/2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781770466524
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Booklist Review
The latest book full of "Ernie Pook's Comeek" installments features fewer of the emotional storms of early adolescence than My Perfect Life (1992), arguably Barry's best collection. It's more about what impinges on late-1960s midteener Maybonne Mullen than what she initiates, and it's got much more of the stories Maybonne's irrepressible younger sister, Marlys, writes and draws as well as some by their brother, Freddie. The boy's arrival to live with his sisters at Grandma Mullen's (he'd been with an aunt since his mother's breakdown) is one of the momentous happenings these four-panel strips record. Others are the brief return of Uncle John, whom the sisters adore even though he's gay; the night Maybonne's friend Cindy loses her virginity to the "new boys from the Catholic school"; reading Cindy's letters from a former boyfriend, a high-school dropout now in the army in Vietnam; being called back to live with Mom again and getting there on the bus; and when Maybonne returns to her old school, finding her old friend Brenda has been telling wild stories about her. And they are all, thanks to Barry's mastery of her material, quite magical indeed. ~--Ray Olson
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Barry, L. (2022). It's So Magic . Drawn & Quarterly.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barry, Lynda. 2022. It's So Magic. Drawn & Quarterly.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Barry, Lynda. It's So Magic Drawn & Quarterly, 2022.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Barry, L. (2022). It's so magic. Drawn & Quarterly.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Barry, Lynda. It's So Magic Drawn & Quarterly, 2022.
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