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Geneviève Elverum ( née Gosselin; April 9, 1981 – July 9, 2016), also known as Geneviève Castrée, was a Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and musician from Quebec. An early admirer of comics, she began creating them at a young age. L'Oie de Cravan published her first book, Lait Frappé, in 2000. By 2004 she had released three more books ...
Mar 28, 2019 · The highly personal book sees Castrée tell the true story of her difficult and chaotic childhood through the character of Goglu, a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives two thousand miles away. Susceptible was shortlisted for the 2013 Cartoonist Studio Prize.
Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home's daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel debut by Geneviève Castrée; it's a testament to the heartbreaking loss of innocence when a child is forced to be the adult amongst grownups.. $ 19.95. In stock.
Feb 19, 2013 · Writer & Artist: Geneviève Castrée. Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly. Release Date: February 19, 2013. It’s a relief to discover that Susceptible isn’t the first thing Geneviève Castrée has ...
Jul 19, 2018 · But the book itself also handily demonstrates all the traps that Castrée was not susceptible to: sentimentality, melodrama, self-pity. In this autobiographical work—“Goglu” was a childhood nickname—she foregrounds painful memories but also insists that the pain can be transformed into something beyond them.
Feb 19, 2013 · Susceptible. Kindle & comiXology. Goglu is a daydreamer with a young working mother, a disengaged stepfather, and a father who lives two thousand miles away. Drawing, punk rock, and the promise of true independence guide Goglu to adulthood while her home’s daily chaos inevitably shapes her identity. Susceptible is a devastating graphic novel ...
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Sep 15, 2012 · Susceptible, a seeming autobiography, explores thematic ground familiar from the graphic autofictions of Lynda Barry, Debbie Drechsler, or Phoebe Gloeckner: that of an unidealized and conflicted girlhood, lived out, from childhood to adolescence, in all its complexity, with little in the way of adult solicitude or guidance—because the adults around are mostly too self-involved or fucked up ...
