"In her debut graphic novel, Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful ten years of her life - her tenacious struggle to get pregnant and the emotional turmoil of her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds in subtle, tonal shades of black ink, slowly shifting into muted color hues until the pages explode into a glorious full-color palette, reflecting the emotional trajectory of the author's story. the irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility, sexuality, choice, and mortality. Instead of using traditional comics panels, the author paints every page as a unique composition that conveys her inner world and the objective series of events she relates. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing is Monsters."-- cover page 4.
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