Flowers Ebony
Flowers Ebony - Hot Comb - Paperback
Flowers Ebony - Hot Comb - Paperback
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Description: Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post NPR The Guardian and more! Nominated for an Naacp Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction! Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming - of - age stories as seen across a crowded ammonia - scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular Hot Comb is about a young girl's first perm a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming too white in the all - Black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In Virgin Hair taunts of tender - headed sting as much as the perm itself. My Lil Sister Lena shows the stress of being the only Black player on a white softball team. Lena's hair is the team curio an object to be touched a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb Ebony Flowers re - creates classic magazine ads idealizing women's need for hair relaxers and products. Change your hair form to fit your life form and Kinks and Koils Forever call customers from the page. Realizations about race class and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads which are by turns sweet insightful and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph. D. in curriculum and instruction and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
Title: Hot Comb
Author(s): Flowers Ebony
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770463486
Pages: 96 Pages, Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 6/18/2019
Category: Graphic Novels
Description: Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post NPR The Guardian and more! Nominated for an Naacp Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction! Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming - of - age stories as seen across a crowded ammonia - scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular Hot Comb is about a young girl's first perm a doomed ploy to look cool and stop seeming too white in the all - Black neighborhood her family has just moved into. In Virgin Hair taunts of tender - headed sting as much as the perm itself. My Lil Sister Lena shows the stress of being the only Black player on a white softball team. Lena's hair is the team curio an object to be touched a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Throughout Hot Comb Ebony Flowers re - creates classic magazine ads idealizing women's need for hair relaxers and products. Change your hair form to fit your life form and Kinks and Koils Forever call customers from the page. Realizations about race class and the imperfections of identity swirl through these stories and ads which are by turns sweet insightful and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her Ph. D. in curriculum and instruction and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
Title: Hot Comb
Author(s): Flowers Ebony
Publisher: Drawn And Quarterly
Barcode: 9781770463486
Pages: 96 Pages, Illustrations Throughout
Publication Date: 6/18/2019
Category: Graphic Novels
