But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This is an autobiographical book by a French comics artist and I really wanted to like it, but it was just too shallow. The book contains short comics and one-page cartoons following the life of a woman with husband and a young daughter. Some of the comics about her relationship with the daughter are fine, but most of the ones dealing with her own life or her relationship with her husband feel like they could have been taken from a men’s magazine in the 1950s. It’s all about her obsession with her looks, with expensive clothes and shoes, about how to make her husband stop watching football on the TV and so on. The edition I read was published in Denmark and I’m assuming the publisher thinks this might work there. I really can’t see this being published in my home country Sweden, though, where it would be seen as rather retrograde and provocative. Don’t get me wrong, I applaud every move that gets us more comics aimed at a female target audience, but this was just too much of a cliché to have me applaud it being translated into a Scandinavian language.The art is beautiful, though, in its better moments reminding me of the art of the great British comics artist Posy Simmonds. i picked this up yesterday at the toronto comic arts festival because the cover caught my eye. i immediately fell in love with the beautiful drawings (they remind me a bit of hilary knight) and the hilarity and even the shoes that margaux is wearing in the comics. now i am obsessed. OBSESSED.but oh the agony! this is the only one of motin's books that has been translated into english. i can get a google translate of her blog, but none of the handwritten words in her illustrations translate (obviously). AGH. so now i have to learn french.
What do You think about But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist (2009)?
A fun clever fanciful read, with appealing art
—denise
OMFG - so funny, raunchy, and real!! Loved it.
—dope721
