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M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career feels untenable - as one professor tells her, "Don't expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit." She decides to get a personal trainer's certificate - it seems like a feasible and sensible career option - but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around - or, to get her shit together. "I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don't want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations." Harkness's bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.… (plus d'informations)
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The autobiographical work of M.S. Harkness continues to fascinate and frustrate me. This follow-up to Tinderella and Desperate Pleasures picks up the previously introduced strands of Harness' tangled romantic life, part-time sex work, exercise obsession, substance abuse, and coping as a sexual abuse survivor. I recommend you read those books before jumping into this one.
The longest book yet in the series, it tends to meander and get lost in navel gazing as it slowly circles around to the start of the series with Harkness working on and publishing her her first graphic novel, called Cellphone Cinderella here for some strange reason. I could have done without the confusing layouts of several double-page spreads, especially the trippy drug sequence.
Lots of friends and sequences are dropped into the book without reason or payoff, but it's all worthwhile when Harkness focuses on her emotional growth and her fractured relationship with an MMA fighter.
This sort of feels like a conclusion to the cycle, but I hope Harkness shares more stories from her life in the future. ( )
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M.S. Harkness is graduating from art school in Minneapolis and facing a crossroads in life. She has a strained relationship with her mother, a sexually abusive father on parole, and is in love with an aspiring MMA fighter who mostly hangs out with her to get high and already has a girlfriend and career prospects with a fight promotion. An art career feels untenable - as one professor tells her, "Don't expect to get by on this fucked-up broke girl shit." She decides to get a personal trainer's certificate - it seems like a feasible and sensible career option - but continues to dabble as a sex worker and weed dealer because the money is too irresistible. With idle hands due to no classes or full-time work, M.S. has ample time to aimlessly fuck around - or, to get her shit together. "I want to be better, I want to be stable and solid. I don't want to keep aimlessly shifting between untenable situations." Harkness's bold, precise black-and-white cartooning and eye for storytelling invites the reader in, while her sharp wit and naturalist ear as a writer takes it away from there. Never didactic, always real, Time Under Tension is a spirited and assured work of graphic memoir.
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The longest book yet in the series, it tends to meander and get lost in navel gazing as it slowly circles around to the start of the series with Harkness working on and publishing her her first graphic novel, called Cellphone Cinderella here for some strange reason. I could have done without the confusing layouts of several double-page spreads, especially the trippy drug sequence.
Lots of friends and sequences are dropped into the book without reason or payoff, but it's all worthwhile when Harkness focuses on her emotional growth and her fractured relationship with an MMA fighter.
This sort of feels like a conclusion to the cycle, but I hope Harkness shares more stories from her life in the future. (