Follow Your Art: Roberta's Comic Trips

by Roberta Gregory

Humorous and enlightening travel stories drawn as comics, about some of the places Roberta’s creativity has taken her, and of the people who helped make this possible. Cross-country train travel, road trips through California and the Midwest, overseas to Sweden, Portugal and Spain (and a road trip there as well) and 29 pages about the natural and cultural wealth of the Pacific Northwest!

113 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Raina · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was super fun to read Gregory's recounting of her touristic exploits in my native Pacific Northwest. The very first comics included are about Mount Rainier and the Mima Mounds - both places I consider my own, to an extent. Gregory also talks about several train trips across the continental United States, as well as some international "comics celebrity" adventures, and a section at the end about going to an artists retreat center on Whidbey.

Solidly lands in my graphicnoveltravelogue obsession.
Some of the comics get overly wordy (even feeling like illustrated prose at times), but this feels like a quick every night on the go piece, for the most part. I haven't read her other work (except for a few pieces in anthologies), particularly her most famous Bitchy Bitch character. But I get the sense that this diverges from her fiction quite a bit, in style. This feels a bit more like something by Gabrielle Bell.

It feels just a bit surreal to read tourist accounts of your neighborhood. :)