Wash Day Diaries - Brossura

Rowser, Jamila

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ISBN 10: 1797205455 ISBN 13: 9781797205458

Casa editrice: Chronicle Books Llc, 2022

Riassunto

From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and endurance of Black women, their friendships, and their hair.

Wash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—through five connected short story comics that follow these young women through the ups and downs of their daily lives in the Bronx.

The book takes its title from the wash day experience shared by Black women everywhere of setting aside all plans and responsibilities for a full day of washing, conditioning, and nourishing their hair. Each short story uses hair routines as a window into these four characters' everyday lives and how they care for each other.

Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith originally kickstarted their critically acclaimed, award-winning slice of life mini comic, Wash Day, inspired by Rowser's own wash day ritual and their shared desire to see more comics featuring the daily lived experiences of young Black women. Wash Day Diaries includes an updated, full color version of this original comic—which follows Kim, a 26-year-old woman living in the Bronx—as the book's first chapter and expands into a graphic novel with short stories about these vibrant and relatable new characters.

In expanding the story of Kim and her friends, the authors pay tribute to Black sisterhood through portraits of shared, yet deeply personal experiences of Black hair care. From self-care to spilling the tea at an hours-long salon appointment to healing family rifts, the stories are brought to life through beautifully drawn characters and different color palettes reflecting the mood in each story.

At times touching, quiet, triumphant, and laugh out loud funny, the stories of Wash Day Diaries pay a loving tribute to Black joy and the resilience of Black women.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jamila Rowser is a Black, Puerto Rican, and Dominican award-winning writer who enjoys creating comics for Black women. She also publishes comics by and for women of color and non-binary people of color through Black Josei Press. Jamila was featured, along with Robyn Smith, in Adweek's 2021 Creative 100 as a creator to follow. Jamila lives in Miami but reps the Bronx. You can find her detangling her hair, reading manga, and doting on her two cats Sage and Sapphire.

Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist known for illustrating DC Comics' Nubia: Real One (written by L.L. McKinney) and her mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town. She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has worked on comics for College Humor and The Nib. She loves cake and cats and holds onto dreams of returning home to the ocean.

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From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel about the daily lives of four best friends in the Bronx, told through five interlocking short stories. ôWash Dayö follows Kim through the quiet self-care rituals of her wash dayùthe universal experience shared by Black women of setting aside all plans and responsibilities for a full day of hair care. ôGroup Chatö sees Tanisha filling her many hours at the salon by texting her friends all her latest gossip. ôBright Sideö is a quiet portrait of Davene missing a hair appointment as she struggles with her mental health and gets well-meaning, but misguided support from Cookie. In ôLa Bendici¾n,ö Cookie receives an unexpected request from her estranged abuela and heals a family rift during a tender moment of hair care. ôRide or Dieö takes place on Saturday night, when the girls have each otherÆs backs as they head triumphantly to the club for KimÆs big show.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Chronicle Books Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1797205455
• ISBN 13: 9781797205458
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Disegnatore: Smith Robyn
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 191
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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