Review:
With its mixture of stark realism and devilish fantasy, Stitches achieves a vibrant emotionalism that's rare in both memoirs and graphic work of this kind. It's never sentimental, but it may well move you to tears.--Ken Tucker "Shelf Life "
One word. Phenomenal....If you haven't read a graphic novel before, let this be your first. I cannot say enough about this book, which will be released in September and is something to look out for. Highly Recommended. I reluctantly give this novel 5 stars; reluctantly, only because there aren't 6 stars to give out.--Jeff Rivera
Starred Review. Emotionally raw, artistically compelling and psychologically devastating graphic memoir of childhood trauma....Graphic narrative at its most cathartic.
A beautifully drawn, tragicomic graphic memoir about a childhood from hell.
Stitches is one of the most compelling books I've read in a long time. David Small, with his ground-breaking work, has elevated the art of the graphic novel and brought it to new creative heights.--Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man and other Marvel Comics
From the Back Cover:
"David Small presents us with a profound and moving gift of graphic literature that has the look of a movie and reads like a poem. . . . We know that we are in the hands of a master."--Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
"David Small's Stitches is aptly named. With surgical precision, the author pierces into the past and, with great artistry, seals the wound inflicted on a small child by cruel and unloving parents. Stitches is as intensely dramatic as a woodcut novel of the silent movie era and as fluid as a contemporary Japanese manga. It breaks new ground for graphic novels."--Françoise Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker, and editorial director, TOON Books
"David Small evokes the mad scientific world of the 1950s beautifully. Small is an innocent lamb, a sensitive boy, caught in a nightmare situation. Capturing body language and facial expressions subtly, Stitches becomes in Small's skillful hands a powerful story, an emotionally charged autobiography."--Robert Crumb, author of The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
"In Stitches, David Small, one of our most gifted storytellers, exposes the deepest part of a painful youth--as cathartic and disturbing as memoirs get. This one will resonate long after you put it down."--Harry Bliss, cover artist for The New Yorker
"Add David Small's book to the illustrated bible of artists who have had to will themselves--invent themselves--and ultimately seize success as the only way to keep the gritty, dark beginning of a home life from snuffing them out altogether."--Jack Gantos, author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, finalist for the National Book Award
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