User:Geo Swan/I'm Not Here (graphic novel)

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I'm Not Here is a graphic novel that was nominated for a Doug Wright Award.^[1]^[2]^[3] The author, known by the pen-name GG has written several highly regarded graphic novels.

On December 19, 2017, CBC Books listed I'm Not Here on a list of the ten best graphic novels of the year.^[4]

The Portland Mercury compared I'm Not Here to the dreamy quality of David Lynch's Twin Peaks.^[5]

Chris Gavaler, writing in Pop Matters, called the novel "one of the richest and gently disturbing graphic novels I've read in years".^[6]

References

^ "I'm Not Here". CBC News. 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2020-04-13. This is a subtle, beautifully drawn work that recalls the cerebral, humanist science fiction of filmmakers such as Chris Marker and Miranda July mixed with the generational themes and unwavering hand of Yasujiro Ozu.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Shea Hennum (2017-09-28). "With I'm Not Here, the enigmatic GG offers a sterling comic on a silver platter". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2020-04-13. That's not to say that the book is confusing or otherwise impenetrable. Rather, GG leaves her readers to quietly intuit the significance of facial expressions, silences, encounters—to make sense of them in their own way, at their own pace, in their own time.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Tops Annual 'PW' Graphic Novel Critics Poll". Publisher's Weekly. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2020-04-13. 'Small-town anomie has rarely been as haunting as in this spooky mediation on loneliness and surveillance by Canadian artist GG.'{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "The best Canadian comics and graphica of 2017". CBC Books. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here strings together a series of intimate memories as a young, second generation woman moves through the neighbourhood of her childhood. GG's beautiful illustrations underscore the quiet narrator's deep sadness and hope, as she contemplates elder care, Other-ness and art.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Suzette Smith (2018-01-03). "Short form comics you will love". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here feels like a short black-and-white film. An unnamed woman catches her double in a photograph and begins to stalk her alter-ego, touching on unsettling notions of identity and diaspora. What actually happens in the story is up for interpretation. I'm still not sure what it means. Maybe you can tell me.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ Chris Gavaler (2017-09-12). "gg's 'I'm Not Here' Is One of the Richest and Gently Disturbing Graphic Novels I've Read in Years". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here builds on gg's earlier short works by approaching the long form in discrete, almost stand-alone units.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[cbc2017-08-22-1] "I'm Not Here". CBC News. 2017-08-22. Retrieved 2020-04-13. This is a subtle, beautifully drawn work that recalls the cerebral, humanist science fiction of filmmakers such as Chris Marker and Miranda July mixed with the generational themes and unwavering hand of Yasujiro Ozu.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[avclub2017-09-28-2] Shea Hennum (2017-09-28). "With I'm Not Here, the enigmatic GG offers a sterling comic on a silver platter". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2020-04-13. That's not to say that the book is confusing or otherwise impenetrable. Rather, GG leaves her readers to quietly intuit the significance of facial expressions, silences, encounters—to make sense of them in their own way, at their own pace, in their own time.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[publishersweekly2017-12-20-3] "'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters' Tops Annual 'PW' Graphic Novel Critics Poll". Publisher's Weekly. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2020-04-13. 'Small-town anomie has rarely been as haunting as in this spooky mediation on loneliness and surveillance by Canadian artist GG.'{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[cbc2017-12-19-4] "The best Canadian comics and graphica of 2017". CBC Books. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here strings together a series of intimate memories as a young, second generation woman moves through the neighbourhood of her childhood. GG's beautiful illustrations underscore the quiet narrator's deep sadness and hope, as she contemplates elder care, Other-ness and art.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[portlandmercury2018-01-03-5] Suzette Smith (2018-01-03). "Short form comics you will love". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here feels like a short black-and-white film. An unnamed woman catches her double in a photograph and begins to stalk her alter-ego, touching on unsettling notions of identity and diaspora. What actually happens in the story is up for interpretation. I'm still not sure what it means. Maybe you can tell me.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[popmatters2017-09-12-6] Chris Gavaler (2017-09-12). "gg's 'I'm Not Here' Is One of the Richest and Gently Disturbing Graphic Novels I've Read in Years". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2020-04-13. I'm Not Here builds on gg's earlier short works by approaching the long form in discrete, almost stand-alone units.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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