GRAPHIC NOVELS

BTTM FDRS

by Ezra Claytan (text) Daniels & (text) & Ben Passmore (illus.) (illus.).
Fantagraphics. Jun. 2019. 288p. ISBN 9781683962069. $24.99. GRAPHIC NOVELS
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Escaping her upwardly mobile parents, Darla moves back to their old neighborhood in Chicago’s Bottomyards to find bare-bones housing where she can grow her design business on the cheap. Paradoxically, the area’s “authentic” ambiance has begun attracting the trendy-chic media and business interests. But her huge, windowless building hides a secret legacy from a biotech invention twisted by would-be exploiters. A savage Afrofuturistic horror comedy about gentrification, racial invisibility, and cultural appropriation in knock-your-eyes-out, “non-literal” coloring. (SLJ 6/14/19)
Reviewed by Martha Cornog , Nov 01, 2019
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