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\nBIO<\/span><\/p>\n

Glynnis Fawkes<\/span> is a cartoonist and archaeological illustrator. Her comics for MuthaMagazine<\/em> were nominated for an Ignatz Award at the Small Press Expo in 2016. Recently her work has appeared on The New Yorker.com<\/em> and in the magazine. Her latest book, Reign of Crumbs<\/em>, is available from Kilgore Books. Her Greek Diary<\/em> 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<\/em> also won the MoCCA Arts Festival Award for Excellence. She has illustrated several academic books (Three Stones Make a Wall<\/em>, Kinyras: the Divine Lyre<\/em>, The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths<\/em>) 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<\/em> (Hellenic Bank, Nicosia 2001), a book of paintings, and Cartoons of Cyprus<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n

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\nIN PRAISE OF GLYNNIS FAWKES<\/span><\/p>\n

Readers<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n

– Booklist<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection reaches an emotional climax with \u201cThe House on Thurman Street,\u201d 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 mother\u2019s devastating memory loss due to Alzheimer\u2019s, a disease Fawkes realizes can be hereditary. \u201cThe jaws of my memory want to close on this house so hard,\u201d she concludes. Combining small moments that will ring true for many readers, Fawkes uncovers big themes in this funny-sad, satisfying mosaic.<\/p>\n

– Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve been more charmed by a book in quite some time. Glynnis Fawke\u2019s Persephone\u2019s Garden<\/em> is actually a compilation, a sketchbook diary that functions as a kind of graphic memoir when fully assembled. The composition of this book is a delight. We get to witness a progression of styles based both on necessity and choice. Some pages feature intricate designs, while others are quick drawings that capture brief moments incredibly well. To have capture them another way would likely have lost the heart of those moments. It is such a beautiful book because it isn\u2019t overthought; it has a gift in that it wasn\u2019t actually composed to be what it is. It\u2019s a true diary, not a memoir. A collection of life, it functions as a natural reflection on raising kids in settings that are fairly unique, such as an archeological dig in Cyprus, but with universal situations like temper tantrums over stopping for ice cream. The real beauty of this book is towards the end where both Fawkes art and narrative seem to refine and coalesce. Her children are older, but the trials don\u2019t evaporate. She channels the mother-daughter relationship as well as I\u2019ve seen in any form, the simultaneous \u201cpay attention to me get away from me\u201d vibe of adolescence captured nearly perfectly on the page.<\/p>\n

– Panel Patter<\/span><\/p>\n

MORE PRAISE FOR GLYNNIS FAWKES<\/span><\/a>\n