Week Twelve: Women’s Comics

For this week I chose to read “This one summer” by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki. Although the story was being told by a females perspective and her female friend I felt like I could still relate in some cases with them, such as interactions with her parents or other teens. I enjoyed the seriousness of some of the topics and could relate to situations I’ve been put in as a teenager/young adult. Although I had never been to the same place consistently every summer with my parents we did take trips and it reminded me of times in my youth, which I thought was well written by the authors, it made it easy to read and interesting to see some ones similar encounter with others/parents at that age from an outer perspective. I also enjoyed the stylization of the story again the lack of color and use of black and white was appealing to me, the simplicity used on the characters as well.