Mother's Urn

This graphic memoir seems a little difficult to discuss as far as content is concerned. I find it so interesting that it's prefaced (I think) with the disclaimer of "no characters in this memoir are real and if they reflect any real individuals its by accident," or something of that nature. Kind of set the stage up a little weird for me--however, I did feel really effected by the poetic descriptions of the relationship between the protagonist and her mother.

The art work was super trippy, and INCREDIBLY dark. That more than anything made me feel uncomfortable, and sad, and like I adopted the sentimentalities of the protagonist. Outside of the art work and content... lets talk about those shiny pages (at least in my copy). I thought that was such an interesting choice of paper quality, particularly with the black backgrounds. It made it almost impossible to read at times because of that shiny paper quality, which made me think about the way that the protagonist had a hard time connecting with her mother because of her drug use, neglectful marriage, and overall unavailability. I feel like this is a graphic memoir to be read more than once with long periods of time in between each reading.