Pixels of You
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4.0 • 5 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends—and maybe more—in this moving YA graphic novel
In a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident, and Fawn is one of the first human-presenting AI. They have the same internship at a gallery, but neither thinks much of the other’s photography. But after a huge public blowout, their mentor gives them an ultimatum: work together on a project or leave her gallery forever. Grudgingly, the two begin to collaborate, and what comes out of it is astounding and revealing for both of them. Pixels of You is about the slow transformation of a rivalry to a friendship to something more as Indira and Fawn navigate each other, the world around them—and what it means to be an artist and a person.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Via a semifuturistic New York City populated by people and sentient artificial intelligences, Hirsh and Ota (Lucky Penny) present the moody chronicling of a relationship just beginning. Indian American artist Indira interns at a gallery while acclimating to a robotic eye; when Fawn, an AI in a human-looking "natural chassis" portrayed with pale skin and hair, is hired as a new intern, the photographers' dislike is immediate. Fawn thinks Indira's images of AIs are objectifying, and Indira finds Fawn's plant photographs "too safe." After an outburst in the gallery, its owner makes their year-end exhibition a collaboration. As the two work grudgingly together, each begins to understand the other's perspective, and their rivalry slowly grows into a tender new closeness. Doyle's angular art makes smart use of color, for example rendering Fawn's form pale against a saturated palette as the characters' interactions touch on issues of othering, including immigration, class, race, and sentience. In this quietly paced character study with a cinematic feel, a melancholy atmosphere slowly blooms into something warm and hopeful amid news headlines documenting concerns about implicit bias in AI. Ages 12–up. ■
