Sweaterweather
& Other Short Stories
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Back before Odd Duck, before Robot Dreams, Sara Varon created Sweaterweather. This endearing, quirky volume is a captivating look into Varon's creative process. It combines short comics stories, essays, and journal entries, and invites the reader into the world of Sara Varon: where adorable, awkward anthropomorphic animals walk the streets of Brooklyn and a surprising, sideways revelation is waiting around every corner.
First Second is proud to introduce Sweaterweather to a new generation of readers in this gorgeous jacketed hardcover, with a new cover and plenty of new content.
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Varon has added 10 stories to the eight gathered in her 2003 comics collection of the same name, along with brief introductions for all 18. Most of the stories are short, and most feature animals. In one, a bird and a monkey batter each other in a boxing match, then sit companionably on the couch nursing their wounds. A lion borrows a library book called How to Fit In in the African Grassland and tries various techniques for socializing with his prey (then gives the book a five-star review). There's a snapshot of the Mexico City subway and its hawkers ("Cacahuetes! Diez pesos!" a bear cries), and a series of nervous interviews of her artist friends as Varon prepares to quit her job and work from home ("Coyote says that the times she has to really struggle to figure out what's next, though uncomfortable, are the times she grows the most"). Varon's characters, their sheepish expressions, and their animated conversations are unfailingly delightful, while flashes of graphic inventiveness a fake flyer bound into the book, a set of carefully engineered paper dolls are icing on the cake. Ages 8 up.
