Link to Blair Butler running down her Best Of 2008, giving both Local and Northlanders second-place spots in their respective categories.
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Found here. I hope he does more of these.
Local #1: “Intense and beautiful, as any story set in Portland should be. One scene, four outcomes. I want this girl to win & I want you to read this!”
Local #6: “Why do I care this much for Megan? The emotional torment is real. I can feel her sincerity even as she does totally retarded things.”
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LOCAL- Washington, D.C., originally uploaded by funrama.
Another masterful drawing of Megan from our book LOCAL. © Ryan Kelly.
NPR’s Best Graphic Novels of 2008
This graphic novel in 12 short stories follows punky dreamer Megan McKeenan as she roams America. Each short represents a different year in a different city, as she takes odd jobs, gets into creepy relationships and lives the extended childhood of many 20-somethings. Though she often lies and gets into dodgy situations, Megan approaches people with the instinctive wisdom that only young wanderers have. Wood, author of the hugely popular comic DMZ, has created a contemporary ballad to the idea of the open road. It’s both frightening and freeing to see how identity can be as fluid as location. Megan moves from state to state, dealing with roommates and dead-end jobs and looking for an existence that befits her intelligence and desire for authenticity. She’s not a lost cause; she simply chooses, for personal reasons, to drift a while.
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Here’s the complete Local #3, available on MySpace.
Here’s the complete Local #6, with commentary text written by Ryan Kelly and myself.
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