Sky in Stereo

by Sacha Mardou

Overview

Iris, a young woman turning eighteen in early 1990s Manchester, England, is slowly losing her tenuous grip on her world of burger-flipping, drugs, and rock 'n roll. After quitting her job at a clothes shop, Iris takes a position at a burger bar at the train station, where her crush on fellow burger-flipper Glen takes her down a dark path. A Revival House Press production in association with Alternative Comics.

Mardou is from Manchester, England and now lives in St Louis, Missouri. She has been making mini-comics since 2001, and was a founder of the all-girl comic Whores of Mensa . Mardou contributed art to the 2015 film The Missing Girl .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934460832
Publisher:	Alternative Comics
Publication date:	10/13/2015
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Mardou is from Manchester, England and now lives in St Louis, MO. She has been making mini-comics like ‘Anais in Paris’ and ‘Manhole’ since 2001, and was a founder of the all-girl comic ‘Whores of Mensa.’ Mardou contributed art to the 2015 film The Missing Girl.

Editorial Reviews

10/26/2015
Mardou captures the grace of late adolescence in this intriguing, if uneven, graphic novel. Iris, a young college student, is torn between two deeply different worlds: the confinement of her mother's strict Jehovah's Witness beliefs and the hedonistic pleasures of '90s Manchester. Drugs, boys, and jobs in fast food ensue as she claws her way towards something like adulthood. Mardou does a wonderful job of capturing the aimlessness of this in-between age, as well as its unexpected joys. Iris's ardor for floppy-haired young men with good taste in music is depicted with a wonderful degree of warmth and honesty. But the book meanders, wallowing in drug trips and circuitous flirtation to the point of dullness. Mardou's visuals, charmingly simple at the best of times, do not help these lesser moments, and at its worst, the book screeches to particularly self-indulgent halts. At it best, it's an enjoyably earnest look at a difficult age. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"One of the Outstanding Comics of 2015." — Village Voice

"It looks, with eyes wide open, at the teenagers who are awkwardly – and sometimes, due to the increasing availability of heroin, dangerously – coming of age in Manchester’s thumping music scene." — Katie Haegele, The Believer

"It’s a coming-of-age tale if there ever was one." — Frank Santoro, The Comics Journal

"It feels personal, and intimate in a way that belies its status as fiction." — Tim O'Neil, Onion AV Club

"Mardou’s black-and-white line drawings are expressive, focusing primarily on the interactions between characters but also capturing moments of solitude in a spare but effective way." — Eva Volin, Booklist

"If the biggest problem with a book is the fact that I didn’t like that it ended, I’d call that a success." — Kevin Bramer, Optical Sloth

"Mardou pens a compelling story . . ." — Lady Collective

"The tale is broad in its thematic scope, covering everything from religion to drug use to teenage relationships and the search for one’s place in the world." — Joshua K. Connelly, Riverfront Times

"Mardou does a wonderful job of capturing the aimlessness of this in-between age, as well as its unexpected joys." — Publishers Weekly

"Mardou’s narration is wonderful. She paces the story quite well making every page feel intimate and personal." — Dustin Cabeal, Comic Bastards

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