Heart: Seed Snow Circuit

by Lucy Knisley

Told in full color, charming, literary/graphic/comic form, this is the story about a girl who meets an apple, a snowman and a refrigerator one cold day. Each holds forth to her on a particular wisdom about hunger, passion or love.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

13 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 2007

About the author

Beginning with an love for Archie comics and Calvin and Hobbes, Lucy Knisley (pronounced "nigh-zlee") has always thought of cartooning as the only profession she is suited for. A New York City kid raised by a family of foodies, Lucy is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago currently pursuing an MFA at the Center for Cartoon Studies. While completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute, she was comics editor for the award-winning student publication F News Magazine.

Lucy currently resides in New York City where she makes comics. She likes books, sewing, bicycles, food you can eat with a spoon, manatees, nice pens, costumes, baking and Oscar Wilde. She occasionally has been known to wear amazing hats.

She can be reached via e-mail at lucylou@gmail.com.

(copied from http://www.lucyknisley.com/about on 12/31/08)

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm visiting my daughter and gave her a lift to her local library so I browsed the graphic novel section -- which for me means aligning the books with the front of the shelves, tightening up bookends, and checking for misshelved books while also keeping an eye out for any promising books I haven't yet read. And this thin little book from 2006 by a creator I like turns up. I have time to finish my shelf review of the graphic novel section and read the book before my daughter is ready to check out.

It's all nonsensical fluff as an artist waxes philosophical about the nature of art and her need to produce it in successive dialogues with an apple, a snowman and a refrigerator -- the "seed," "snow," and "circuit" of the title, y'see.

It has some value as an early artifact from an artist who has only gotten better and better over the years, but that's about it.

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Huh. I'm glad I didn't read this earlier. Because I might not have tried the artist's others work. This one just had less. And it was a bit pretentious. And a little annoying. And it was also less personal. And it felt amateur-ish - which is fair because it was an early work. Still I'm glad it exists. In written only books the comparison between earlier and later works are often not nearly as clear.

[Aurora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another odd one. Definitely doesn’t hold a candle to her later books, which I like a lot.

[Jana Eichhorn · Rating 3 out of 5]

An early work and definitely not Knisley's best. Probably for fans only.

[Kara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super quick little read of some early Lucy Knisley stuff. It was a little weird but I liked it. Very raw and open. It was very cool to see where she started at and how different (and sometimes similar) her later novels are.

[Pinky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird!

[Kricket · Rating 3 out of 5]

a short full color comic from the amazing lucy knisley. i was a little disappointed by the length, because i want MORE LUCY KNISLEY.

[kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hrm, I don't get it. Conversations between a Apple, Snowman, Robot, and Girl.

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Discourse on creativity and creating - I'm loving it up.

[Scout · Rating 5 out of 5]

My heart feels warm and fuzzy. That was like a hug I desperately needed.

[SA · Rating 2 out of 5]

This reads more like an undergrad final project than a publishable work.