I Am Not Okay With This
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4.3 • 20 Ratings
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- £5.49
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
*ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX*
From the creator of THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD
'Scary, disturbing and expertly executed . . good if not better than Forsman's most celebrated precursor.' GROVEL
Fifteen-year-old Syd feels totally out of place. She's skinny but not 'hot-skinny', she's dealing with the death of her father in silence, and her best friend (who Syd is really in love with) is dating a homophobic bully. Syd's guidance counselor gives her a diary in which to vent her frustration, but Syd has another outlet for her anger, one which threatens to overwhelm her entirely.
From acclaimed cartoonist Charles Forsman, I Am Not Okay With This expertly channels teenage ennui while telling a powerful story about the intense and sometimes violent tug of war between trauma and control.
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Forsman (The End of the Fucking World) draws heavily on the aesthetics of classic Popeye comics in this dark tale of adolescence. Sydney is an apathetic and depressed 15-year-old girl, tasked by her school guidance counselor with keeping a journal to help sort out her feelings. This allows for pitch-perfect unreliable narration to run over visual depictions of events. Sydney's troubles are easily relatable: fights with her mother, grief and guilt over her father's death, a crush on her best friend, questions about her sexuality, and experiments with drugs. But Sydney is also burdened with a terrible power. Her rage manifests as a shooting pain which she can direct at others, causing nosebleeds, migraine headaches, and worse. She has to live through the pain right along with her victims, but sometimes that seems worth it. The pages are drawn with a scratchy quill pen line, with occasional subtle grays interrupting the harsh black and white. As with Forsman's best work, it's another troubling yet poetic exploration of young adults working through their mental pain via its physical projection.
Customer Reviews
I Am Not Okay With This
I really enjoyed the book, I could understand Sydney’s problems and how hard it must’ve been. Five out of five.