Today’s links The Tamakis’ “Roaming”: Ah, to be young and Canadian in New York City. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The Tamakis’ “Roaming” (permalink) Cousins Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki are a graphic storytelling powerhouse, and their latest title, Roaming (from Drawn and Quarterly) is a stunner: https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/roaming/ Roaming is the story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven’t seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani’s art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication. The three young women check into a youth hostel for a hotly anticipated long weekend, which turns into a complicated and moody marathon of debauchery, bonding, feuding, flirting, resentments and wonders. The Tamakis’ specialty is capturing the charged sexuality, subtle friendship power-moves, and intense but brittle friendship between young women. They’re very good at it, which is why they won a Governor General’s prize for their 2014 blockbuster This One Summer: https://memex.craphound.com/2014/05/06/review-this-one-summer/ With Roaming we get a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog. Meanwhile, NYC looms large…Pluralistic: The Tamakis' "Roaming" (11 Sep 2023)