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Graphic Novel

Sensitive Creatures  by Mandy Ord

by Ronnie Scott
March 2012, no. 339

Sensitive Creatures  by Mandy Ord

Allen & Unwin, $24.99 pb, 304 pp

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It’s a simple proposition: short graphic stories about city life, and one narrator – Mandy Ord – drawn with a single bulging eye. But the slice-of-life stories in Sensitive Creatures are rarely straightforward. Sweeping and brittle, kinetic and lush, this is a consistently surprising volume, at once an autobiography, a collection of vignettes, and a comprehensive catalogue of an artist’s career.

 


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Sensitive Creatures  by Mandy Ord

Allen & Unwin, $24.99 pb, 304 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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