Persephone's Garden

(Paperback)

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Glynnis Fawkess comics were published regularly on Muthamagazine.com, and nominated for the Small Press Expo Ignatz Award for Outstanding Online Comic. Alle Ego won the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival Award in 2016. Greek Diary won a silver medal at the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival Award for Excellence in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Slate Cartoonists Studio Prize. Her cartoons were published in both of issues of Resist!, online at the New Yorker, and the Strumpet. She was named among the Best American Comics Notables in 2012 and 2013 and won a Sequential Artists Workshop grant in 2013. Her illustrations appear in many academic books including John Franklin's Kinyras: the Divine Lyre (Harvard 2016), Three Stones Make a Wall by Eric Cline and the Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen (Princeton University Press). Fawkes illustrations have been published online at Popula, Spiralbound, Eidolon and the Washington Post, and have been exhibited at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. Fawkes will launch Persephones Garden alongside Charlotte Bront Before Jane Eyre, part of the CCS Graphic Biography series (Hyperion), and will tour North America in support of both books.

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"Readers will find Fawkes more than succeeds in her diary-endeavor. Her trips abroad are euphoric and sometimes stressful. Her kids are frustrating and funny. Time with her mom is a particular kind of painful, and a reminder that none of it will last. Occasional landscapes and other interstitial drawings give readers a breath and an idea of the breadth of Fawkes talent. A substantive, tender work of recording and remembering." Booklist

"The collection reaches an emotional climax with The House on Thurman Street, which describes a visit to her parents at her childhood home in Portland, Ore. She contrasts the reminiscences the visit stirs in her with her mothers devastating memory loss due to Alzheimers, a disease Fawkes realizes can be hereditary. The jaws of my memory want to close on this house so hard, she concludes. Combining small moments that will ring true for many readers, Fawkes uncovers big themes in this funny-sad, satisfying mosaic." Publishers Weekly

"The collection showcases Fawkess versatility with different styles. The brisk, four-panel template of her daily diary comics appears alongside the more measured and detail-rich look of her longer pieces. The comics strike different notes that will resound in different ways with different readers. Relayed as short segments set in a variety of settings and situations, Persephones Garden is an intimate graphic autobiography of a most unusual kind." Foreword

Author Bio

Glynnis Fawkes is a cartoonist and archaeological illustrator. Her comics for MuthaMagazine were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016. Recently her work has appeared on The New Yorker.com and in the magazine. Her latest book, Reign of Crumbs, is available from Kilgore Books. Her Greek Diary was shortlisted for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Online Comic and won a silver medal at the Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Festival in 2017. In April 2016, her book Alle Ego also won the MoCCA Arts Festival Award for Excellence. She has illustrated several academic books (Three Stones Make a Wall, Kinyras: the Divine Lyre, The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths) and worked extensively as illustrator on archaeological projects in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, and Israel. A Fulbright Fellowship to Cyprus allowed her to publish Archaeology Lives in Cyprus (Hellenic Bank, Nicosia 2001), a book of paintings, and Cartoons of Cyprus (Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2001). She was named among the Best American Comics Notables in 2012 and 2013 and won a Sequential Artists Workshop grant in 2013. She lives in Burlington with her music archaeologist/classics professor husband and two children.