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- IN REAL LIFE is an exciting and heartfelt exploration of video-gaming and global economics that features a capable and caring protagonist. Both Anda and her online avatar are depicted as smart, competent, and ultimately kind. Jen Wang's dynamic layouts clearly convey the story and give momentum to the action scenes.
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Oct 14, 2014 · In Real Life, this new graphic novel written by Cory Doctorow with art by Jen Wang is full of them. In its heartfelt introduction, Cory Doctorow says that In Real Life is about game and economics, about the – political, economical, social – choices that we make on a daily basis and their consequences.
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Nov 7, 2014 · Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang ask these questions in their brief but layered graphic novel “In Real Life.” At first, Doctorow and Wang seem to be spinning a tale of female empowerment.
Apr 7, 2015 · Artist Info: jenwang.net. This is a graphic novel about gaming and economics, as it states in the long intro that perhaps delved more deeply into these topics than the actual comic does. In Real Life also claims to explore the role of gender in gaming.
Oct 14, 2014 · Book Details. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang, In Real Life is a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on.
Oct 14, 2014 · IN REAL LIFE. by Cory Doctorow ; illustrated by Jen Wang ‧RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14, 2014. Thought-provoking, as always from Doctorow. bookshelf. shop now. Online gaming and real life collide when a teen discovers the hidden economies and injustices that hide among seemingly innocent pixels.
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02/13/2018. Age Range. 12-18. Book Details. From acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang comes a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel that takes a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. “A lovely graphic novel for gamer girls of all ages.” —Felicia Day.
In Real Life. by Cory Doctorow; Jen Wang (illus.) Near the beginning of author and copyright-reform activist Cory Doctorow’s new graphic novel, Anda and her friends are listening to a speaker at their Arizona high school.
