A Drunken Dream And Other Stories (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
A lot of her endings don't feel right. The story with the iguana girl was nice, it felt like it had some Rumiko Takahashi-style humor and it reminded me of a short story from one of the futuristic tales in Tezuka's "Phoenix" series. In that story a man has an accident and then sees nearly everyone as inanimate piles of rocks.This collection definitely has a girly feel, but it was an enjoyable read. The one with the family that points at the girl was a little too easy but great. I just finished teaching this once again in my Comics & Graphic Novels course, and I have to say, wow, I love it. My students described the book as "weird," "trippy," "sad," and "overwrought" (but in a good way). It is all that, and then some.Hagio does comics the likes of which I've never seen anywhere else. The best stories in this volume, such as "Iguana Girl," "Hanshin," and the title story, are disturbing little masterpieces of mood, insinuation, psychological depth-sounding, and sheer gender-troubling uncanny strangeness. Sentimentality turns on a dime into horror; horror into weird humor; sadness into reflection. Beautiful, elegant drawing and page-making as well--and a wonderful translation (by Matt Thorn) and book design (by Adam Grano). Fantagraphics did comics lovers a favor with this one; I pray for more.
What do You think about A Drunken Dream And Other Stories (2010)?
Great collection of short sci-fi/fantasy stories. Reminiscent of Grim's Fairy Tales Classic Cartoon.
—dunno234
Once it gets going, you won't want to put it down.
—Nicci
No words can describe the beauty of this book...
—FionaMatthews
