Sunday, July 26, 2020

Rendez-vous in Phoenix by Tony Sandoval

genre: graphic memoir

Tony needs to get into the U.S.  Not only does he have huge dreams of being a comic book artist, but the girlfriend he loves is waiting for him there.  When he is refused a visa over and over, he finally decides he'll get there his own way.  Whatever it takes.

We watch Tony attempt to cross.  We see his desperation and the desperation of those he travels with.  We learn their reasons for wanting to be in the United States and what they are willing to give up to make that happen.  

The art FEELS desperate, in brown tones that cower and run from danger, but it's also long and lanky, like our guide Tony, as we follow him and believe in  his dream as much as he does.

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