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Shirley: A sex comedy
Graphic novel
ON Cover "Suggested for adult readers"
Shirley is young, smart, good looking, and has a great sense of humor. So how come her lovers find her humor a bit too extreme for them?
The story of Shirley is derived from our own lives and experiences with the opposite sex... What some people see as healthy enjoyable humor others find as repellent, embarrassing or just plain rude. Many people are so tight assed about sex... Will they ever learn to relax?
Shirley is a sex-comedy, but it isn't simple porn. It also deals with relationship issues, expectations we have from our partners, different frames of mind...
It's written by a girl (Noa) and drawn by a guy (Amitai), so it should provide a diversified view point on these subjects...
ON Cover "Suggested for adult readers"
Shirley is young, smart, good looking, and has a great sense of humor. So how come her lovers find her humor a bit too extreme for them?
The story of Shirley is derived from our own lives and experiences with the opposite sex... What some people see as healthy enjoyable humor others find as repellent, embarrassing or just plain rude. Many people are so tight assed about sex... Will they ever learn to relax?
Shirley is a sex-comedy, but it isn't simple porn. It also deals with relationship issues, expectations we have from our partners, different frames of mind...
It's written by a girl (Noa) and drawn by a guy (Amitai), so it should provide a diversified view point on these subjects...
40 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2005
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August 6, 2016
This short (32 pp?), paperback graphic novel may offer a hetero reply to the many lesbian coming-out gns (Ariel Shrag, Alison Bechdel) of late, by keeping the awkwardness of the protagonist and the explicitness of the sex scenes; it also complements Miriam Libicki's Jobnik! in its focus on sex and the (Israeli) army. Amitai Sandy's illustrations could be compared to Robert and Aline Kominsky-Crumb (in the celebration of rotundity but not the Crumbs' ugliness) as well as Lydia Davis' Make Me a Woman.
Purchases at Comics & Vegetables in Tel Aviv, but has an ISBN.
Purchases at Comics & Vegetables in Tel Aviv, but has an ISBN.
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