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Grip
Tras sufrir un extraño incidente, la protagonista de Grip no logra que sus manos estén quietas. Ha adquirido una especie de poder, una capacidad extraordinaria, precisa e infalible, que le permite manipular cualquier cosa. Sus manos firmes revelan nuevas maneras de entender el entorno y empujan al lector a fundirse con esa potencia que circula silente entre sus dedos.
Grip es una historia de superpoderes. Un homenaje a todas las mujeres conectadas con su mente y con su cuerpo, preparadas para transformar el mundo con sus manos. Una obra que es punta de lanza de toda una generación de mujeres decididas a escribir una parte fundamental de la historia del noveno arte.
Grip es una historia de superpoderes. Un homenaje a todas las mujeres conectadas con su mente y con su cuerpo, preparadas para transformar el mundo con sus manos. Una obra que es punta de lanza de toda una generación de mujeres decididas a escribir una parte fundamental de la historia del noveno arte.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2020
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August 22, 2025
Lale Westvind’s Grip (2020) is for me the comics event of the year (2022), so far, though it was published in 2020. It came to me via a circuitous route. The copy I have was lent to me by Mia, who has written about a shared interest, poetry comics, and who ordered it from Spain’s Apa Apa Press, that publishes other experimental work by Ana Galvan, Matt Furie, Roberto Masso, and Yuichi Yokoyama, among others (those are just the folks I know from the press so far).
Goodreads reviewer and friend Kim, who also writes in a scholarly way about alternative, indie, and experimental comics of all kinds, made a Top Ten Comics Artists of the Decade list I only saw recently (oh, I love such lists), and she included Westvind, of whom I had never heard, in her top ten! Then I watched a review of her work on comics guru Robert Boyd’s Book Report (link below) who talks about how he heard of it from the comics podcast, Comics Burning in Hell. So when Mia texted me she owned the book, I urged her to drop it off.
It doesn’t work this way with Jane Austen, folks. You want the book, boom. But the secret cult of alt-comix I belong to (involving blood oaths, pinky swears, secret decoder rings you get in cereal boxes) has this outsider geek aspect to it.
Oh, and, the book, you ask? Gorgeous production, by Apa Apa, with bright and almost garish coloring Boyd tells me is an attempt to mimic the original lithograph process of the work. Wordless, it’s a kind of magical Rosie the Riveter feminist story involving a woman who heads down an alley and acquires magic hand powers, and possibly superhuman strength--a grip, which you see for the first time in the last image as two hands grip each other in feminist, working-class solidarity.
When I say the graphic novel is wordless, I mean no words, so of course you read the images to get what story exists, though most of the effects have less to do with narrative than poetry. The color is almost psychedelic, and the panels teem with swirling transformational motion. It almost feels like music, with vibrant, pulsing rhythms.
The woman has to learn how to channel and control her power, and it’s a process to get there. Messes are made, distortion happens, but ultimately things come together. If I had to say what it is “about” metaphorically I guess I would say it is about harnessing life energy, about achieving and controlling your powers. It’s muscular. The woman is muscular, no skinny Vogue model but a worker. And our hero is not the only woman worker. Wherever you go there are women working hard, serving food, cooking, flying planes, driving a motorcycle, building shelters. It’s not a shy and retiring set of images. It’s about work, getting things done. Muscle and machines. Hands everywhere, the tools for work.
Grip is about strength and vibrant beauty, not so much about quiet, muted contemplation. It’s about physical and spiritual and psychic/magical changes, and power. “I am woman, hear me roar”? You almost can hear it. I only read the interview with her now, after writing my review, but she says she writes women in her comics she would have liked to see growing up, or would like to become. She speaks of friends/influences such as Anya Davidson, Conor Stechshulte, Margot Ferrick. Westvind grew up in NYC with Turkish and Swedish parents, and got her BFA at Chicago's Art Institute.
An essay by Gerardo Vilches in the afterwords connects her work to other, what he calls “cosmic primitives,” folks like Jesse Moynihan. I thought of Ron Rege and his Wonder Woman origin comic, which might also draw on and reflect cosmic energy. Cool stuff. Exciting.
Robert Boyd’s Book Report on Grip (ten minutes):
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2...
Thanks, Maria! I'm getting my own copy, and more from her at Quimby's (one of my local comic book stores).
Goodreads reviewer and friend Kim, who also writes in a scholarly way about alternative, indie, and experimental comics of all kinds, made a Top Ten Comics Artists of the Decade list I only saw recently (oh, I love such lists), and she included Westvind, of whom I had never heard, in her top ten! Then I watched a review of her work on comics guru Robert Boyd’s Book Report (link below) who talks about how he heard of it from the comics podcast, Comics Burning in Hell. So when Mia texted me she owned the book, I urged her to drop it off.
It doesn’t work this way with Jane Austen, folks. You want the book, boom. But the secret cult of alt-comix I belong to (involving blood oaths, pinky swears, secret decoder rings you get in cereal boxes) has this outsider geek aspect to it.
Oh, and, the book, you ask? Gorgeous production, by Apa Apa, with bright and almost garish coloring Boyd tells me is an attempt to mimic the original lithograph process of the work. Wordless, it’s a kind of magical Rosie the Riveter feminist story involving a woman who heads down an alley and acquires magic hand powers, and possibly superhuman strength--a grip, which you see for the first time in the last image as two hands grip each other in feminist, working-class solidarity.
When I say the graphic novel is wordless, I mean no words, so of course you read the images to get what story exists, though most of the effects have less to do with narrative than poetry. The color is almost psychedelic, and the panels teem with swirling transformational motion. It almost feels like music, with vibrant, pulsing rhythms.
The woman has to learn how to channel and control her power, and it’s a process to get there. Messes are made, distortion happens, but ultimately things come together. If I had to say what it is “about” metaphorically I guess I would say it is about harnessing life energy, about achieving and controlling your powers. It’s muscular. The woman is muscular, no skinny Vogue model but a worker. And our hero is not the only woman worker. Wherever you go there are women working hard, serving food, cooking, flying planes, driving a motorcycle, building shelters. It’s not a shy and retiring set of images. It’s about work, getting things done. Muscle and machines. Hands everywhere, the tools for work.
Grip is about strength and vibrant beauty, not so much about quiet, muted contemplation. It’s about physical and spiritual and psychic/magical changes, and power. “I am woman, hear me roar”? You almost can hear it. I only read the interview with her now, after writing my review, but she says she writes women in her comics she would have liked to see growing up, or would like to become. She speaks of friends/influences such as Anya Davidson, Conor Stechshulte, Margot Ferrick. Westvind grew up in NYC with Turkish and Swedish parents, and got her BFA at Chicago's Art Institute.
An essay by Gerardo Vilches in the afterwords connects her work to other, what he calls “cosmic primitives,” folks like Jesse Moynihan. I thought of Ron Rege and his Wonder Woman origin comic, which might also draw on and reflect cosmic energy. Cool stuff. Exciting.
Robert Boyd’s Book Report on Grip (ten minutes):
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2...
Thanks, Maria! I'm getting my own copy, and more from her at Quimby's (one of my local comic book stores).
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May 13, 2020I usually don't write any reviews or commentaries here on GR but I think that this book and her author definitively deserve more attention than they have received up to now. This is the most exciting and acrobatic celebration of (female) manual labor I've ever seen in comics. 128 pages of jaw-dropping, hyper-dynamic matter manipulations by endless tangles of hands and fingers, stellar fluo colors and no dialogue. Give Lale Westvind and Perfectly Acceptable Press all the money you have.
February 2, 2023
Sorority visual tour de force 🙌
January 3, 2026
Lale Westvind'in Grip isimli çizgi romanı okuduğum en ilginç çizgi romanlardan biriydi diyebilirim. Sessiz çizgi romanlardan biri olan Grip, ellere, elle yapılan işçiliğe yazılmış ya da çizilmiş bir methiye aslında. Her sayfasından ayrı bir anlam çıkartmak, abartılı okumalar yapmak mümkün :) Ben ilk başta ellerin spiralliğini yer yer medusa'nın yılanlarına benzettim örneğin. Sonra ilerleyen sayfalarda kafanın yanında yer alan yedi tane yılan gördük. :)
Elle üretimin gücüne, kadın olmaya ve belli ki kuir bir kadın olmaya, doğa-insan ilişkisine dair sessiz olmasına rağmen bir şeyler söylemeyi başaran oldukça ilginç bir eser bu. Yazarın Bant Mag'te yer alan röportajı da kendisini ve eserlerini tanımak için aydınlatıcı nitelikte. Nada Kitap'ın emeklerine sağlık bir kez daha.
Elle üretimin gücüne, kadın olmaya ve belli ki kuir bir kadın olmaya, doğa-insan ilişkisine dair sessiz olmasına rağmen bir şeyler söylemeyi başaran oldukça ilginç bir eser bu. Yazarın Bant Mag'te yer alan röportajı da kendisini ve eserlerini tanımak için aydınlatıcı nitelikte. Nada Kitap'ın emeklerine sağlık bir kez daha.
September 23, 2020
My review of 'Grip' published on Solrad,
"Wonder and awe permeate the experience of reading Lale Westvind’s Grip. Better yet, it manages these states while also rejecting the juvenile and fascistic elements of [male] adolescent power fantasies found in mainstream superhero comics, mine and many’s entry point into comics. Grip provides a distinctly feminist power fantasy that centers its main character’s development of her superhuman abilities as a craft utilized towards greater autonomy, inner peace, and collaboration. In doing so, Westvind celebrates the lives of craftspeople and blue-collar workers, showing the vitality of the lives devoted to making and serving, and the opportunities fostered through access to that embodied knowledge..."
Read the rest at the link below.
https://solrad.co/co-making-and-shapi...
Below is my review of my second reading on August 2, 2020.
I’ve been looking forward to reading Grip since the original first volume was released in a limited run in 2018. I really appreciate that perfectly acceptable created this collected edition, their first offset printed book, to make Lale Westvind’s comics about women’s labor more accesible. Plot-wise, it’s all pretty straightforward. A supernatural force imbues the main character with the ability to bend, stretch, and extend anything she touches and she then uses that power to live a life previously inaccesible to her. this is a stunning work that repeatedly enthralls in its nameless character’s manipulation of the material world. I loved the energy of this book, westvind succeeds at rendering deconstructions of various items as the character shapes them into food, shelter and all else she needs. And while there’s a huge show of physical force on the scale of more typical superheroes, it never feels like the power is being used to subjugate or terrorize. Instead, this character is a maker and a dweller who uses her ability to live autonomously while developing relationships with other women that she mutually admires. Definitely recommend everyone get this while they can. Even in this more available edition, the print run is limited to 3000, so get it while you can. It needs to be seen.
"Wonder and awe permeate the experience of reading Lale Westvind’s Grip. Better yet, it manages these states while also rejecting the juvenile and fascistic elements of [male] adolescent power fantasies found in mainstream superhero comics, mine and many’s entry point into comics. Grip provides a distinctly feminist power fantasy that centers its main character’s development of her superhuman abilities as a craft utilized towards greater autonomy, inner peace, and collaboration. In doing so, Westvind celebrates the lives of craftspeople and blue-collar workers, showing the vitality of the lives devoted to making and serving, and the opportunities fostered through access to that embodied knowledge..."
Read the rest at the link below.
https://solrad.co/co-making-and-shapi...
Below is my review of my second reading on August 2, 2020.
I’ve been looking forward to reading Grip since the original first volume was released in a limited run in 2018. I really appreciate that perfectly acceptable created this collected edition, their first offset printed book, to make Lale Westvind’s comics about women’s labor more accesible. Plot-wise, it’s all pretty straightforward. A supernatural force imbues the main character with the ability to bend, stretch, and extend anything she touches and she then uses that power to live a life previously inaccesible to her. this is a stunning work that repeatedly enthralls in its nameless character’s manipulation of the material world. I loved the energy of this book, westvind succeeds at rendering deconstructions of various items as the character shapes them into food, shelter and all else she needs. And while there’s a huge show of physical force on the scale of more typical superheroes, it never feels like the power is being used to subjugate or terrorize. Instead, this character is a maker and a dweller who uses her ability to live autonomously while developing relationships with other women that she mutually admires. Definitely recommend everyone get this while they can. Even in this more available edition, the print run is limited to 3000, so get it while you can. It needs to be seen.
August 25, 2020
At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I really do think this was one of the most visually astounding pieces of art I have ever experienced, in any medium. A truly unparalleled accomplishment of visual storytelling that pushes the boundaries of experimentation by challenging, deconstructing, and recontextualising the very ideas of form and movement on every single page, while still maintaining an incredibly strong (not to mention downright inspiring!) narrative cohesion. Grip appears both as some sort of futuristic physiology textbook of the gods, and a genuine love letter to the act of doing, making, and most importantly CREATING!
January 1, 2021
Today's book report is about Grip by Lale Westvind. I found out about this book from the podcast Comic Books Are Burning in Hell, where they ranked the then unfinished work as one of the 10 best comics of 2020.
(Addendum: Someone told me that Lale's name is pronounced La-Ley Westvind responded "...my name is pronounced Lah-leh.")
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2...
(Addendum: Someone told me that Lale's name is pronounced La-Ley Westvind responded "...my name is pronounced Lah-leh.")
http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2...
December 15, 2020
Yowza, what a trip. The wordless story reminded me of the best kind of LSD experience. I’m sure the artist had other things to say, but I’ll coast on the pretty surface for now and dip down deeper when I return. And I will return!
November 18, 2025
Bohaterka „Grip” zostaje obdarzona nadzwyczajnym darem, który uwalnia niezwykłą energię płynącą z jej rąk. Coś, co zaczyna się jak typowa (choć niema) historia o superbohaterce, przeistacza się w metaforyczną opowieść o drzemiącej w kobiecie sile, pozwalającej dokonywać czynów na pierwszy rzut niewykonalnych. Dynamiką, jaką zaprezentowano w „Grip”, można by obdarzyć co najmniej kilka innych tytułów. Energia wypływająca z sekwencji kadrów, pędząca na złamanie karku fabuła, wyraziste kolory, będące wynikiem pracy z risografem i formalne zabiegi stosowane w celu wysunięcia na pierwszy plan ruchu, wydają się na tyle osobne, że oryginalność tej pozycji nie podlega dyskusji. Idea pędzenia naprzód skojarzyła mi się z niektórymi pracami Yuichiego Yokoyamy, ale również dziełami pozornie bardziej odległymi, jak „Piasowa opowieść” – Pereza czy „Przygody pewnego japońskiego urzędnika biurowego” – Jose Domingo. Nad wszystkim czuwa jednak mocny feministyczny duch zwieńczony wymownym ostatnim kadrem.
„Grip” odczytuję jako gloryfikację kobiecej pracy i zdolności przekraczania barier, ale też postulat potrzeby jedności w dążeniu do własnych celów. Jednocześnie to hołd dla starych komiksów superbohaterskich i popis wspaniałych umiejętności nieznanej niestety u nas twórczyni
„Grip” odczytuję jako gloryfikację kobiecej pracy i zdolności przekraczania barier, ale też postulat potrzeby jedności w dążeniu do własnych celów. Jednocześnie to hołd dla starych komiksów superbohaterskich i popis wspaniałych umiejętności nieznanej niestety u nas twórczyni
August 26, 2022
El dibujo, espectácular. El mensaje que se puede adivinar, también. Pero esta trama muda que consiste en la protagonista invocando y fabricando cosas con sus manos me ha dejado congelado.
January 5, 2024
Fantastically powerful, wordless graphic novel, full of huge confident women inhabiting their lives with joy and pleasure and awe.
July 14, 2022
Grip es obra de arte excepcional, un delirio, un viaje espeluznante a los confines de la psicodelia, la locura y la ensoñación. Una locura. Único. No tiene desperdicio. Hay páginas que dan ganas de ampliarlas y tenerlas colgadas en la pared del salón.
June 10, 2023
Ta guapo
December 3, 2021
This comic, Grip by Lale Westvind, looks absolutely great, with wild, fluid cartooning and gloriously fluorescent colours. Unfortunately, beyond liking its aesthetic, I don't really get it. My main take-away from reading it has been an increased appreciation for the skill of Jim Woodring, whose Frank comics are (like Grip) textless and psychedelic and driven by an unfathomable internal logic, but (unlike Grip) miraculously manage never to leave me feeling lost or indifferent.
Grip has a frenetic energy, with almost non-stop movement and pages bursting with details and colours. This is exciting – and integral to why it's so visually impressive – but it's also exhausting, especially as lots of the panels are quite similar to one another. Moreover, as I struggled to comprehend the plot, my exhaustion evolved into frustration and ultimately disinterest. That said, eventually I gave up trying to understand what was going on and I just let myself enjoy the pictures. This is probably the best approach, as this artwork really is wonderful.
Grip has a frenetic energy, with almost non-stop movement and pages bursting with details and colours. This is exciting – and integral to why it's so visually impressive – but it's also exhausting, especially as lots of the panels are quite similar to one another. Moreover, as I struggled to comprehend the plot, my exhaustion evolved into frustration and ultimately disinterest. That said, eventually I gave up trying to understand what was going on and I just let myself enjoy the pictures. This is probably the best approach, as this artwork really is wonderful.
March 1, 2022
Un curiosísisisimo cómic.
Llegué a él por varias recomendaciones (todas por casualidad, pensé que era una señal). No sé muy bien qué contar de Westvind, pues para mi era una desconocida, aunque admito que no soy muy docta en cómics. Lo que sí puedo decir es que es un ejemplar sorprendente desde el momento en que lo cogí del estante de la librería: los colores (completamente eléctricos), los dibujos brutales, parecen toscos pero a la vez delicado, las ilustraciones (!!!) Todas las páginas están valiosamente aprovechadas! Quise pegar la faja de promo en algún lugar del interior pero fue imposible. Había unas deslumbrantes manos en las contras...En fin, un libro encantador para una lectura diferente.
Llegué a él por varias recomendaciones (todas por casualidad, pensé que era una señal). No sé muy bien qué contar de Westvind, pues para mi era una desconocida, aunque admito que no soy muy docta en cómics. Lo que sí puedo decir es que es un ejemplar sorprendente desde el momento en que lo cogí del estante de la librería: los colores (completamente eléctricos), los dibujos brutales, parecen toscos pero a la vez delicado, las ilustraciones (!!!) Todas las páginas están valiosamente aprovechadas! Quise pegar la faja de promo en algún lugar del interior pero fue imposible. Había unas deslumbrantes manos en las contras...En fin, un libro encantador para una lectura diferente.
June 20, 2023
Lale Westvind's Grip is a masterclass of wordless storytelling. A woman gains (or rather discovers within herself) an immense ability to work with her hands and basically re-arrange matter if she so chooses to. As she learns to harness her ability, we witness her empowerment and ascension into something more. The story is rendered in gorgeous Risograph that creates some vibrantly colored sequences. It's a beautiful comic with a simple, endearing story.
April 14, 2023
Quiero hacer muchas cosas con las manos: cerámica, escultura, pintura, collage...
Voy a regalarle este libro a todas mis amigas artistas y a las que lo son, pero no lo saben. Magia sin texto, solo imagen, solo conexión.
Voy a regalarle este libro a todas mis amigas artistas y a las que lo son, pero no lo saben. Magia sin texto, solo imagen, solo conexión.
December 28, 2021
So fucking good! I love her! Get a grip!
March 27, 2024
Kelimelere ihtiyaç duymayan çizgi romanlara ilgim büyük. Bugüne kadar güzel çok fazla örneğine şahit oldum. Thomas Ott, Gregory Panaccione, Moebius gibi çokça bu işin "iyi" yaratıcısı olunca insanın beklentileri yüksek oluyor elindeki kitaba.
Bu sebepten Lale Westvind'ten de bu işle ilgili beklentim epeyce yüksekti. Ama büyük bir hayal kırıklığı ile sonuçlandı. Kitap, nazarımda insan haklarının çokça geliştiği bir Avrupa ülkesinde çekilmiş 8 mart kamu spotu filminin uzatıla uzatıla çizgi roman yapılmış versiyonu.
Ana karakterimiz olan kadın, günün birinde çarpılıyor mu, kendisine bir mucize mi bağışlanıyor noluyorsa artık o "o encuazda bi elamet geldi vuhuuuuuu" diyerekten elleriyle harikalar yaratıyor. Harikalar dediğimde öyle basit şeyler değil ha. Tezgahta köfte yapmaktan, ağaç doğrayıp ev yapmaya, uçup kaçıp havalarda süzülmeye kadar her şeyi yapabiliyor. Müfettiş Gadget gibi, eller her yola gidiyor her şeyi yapıyor. Bi ara aşık oluyor sanırım. Sanırım diyorum çünkü hikayeyi betimleyen çizimler bi noktada o kadar karışıyor ki ne olduğunu idrak etmekte zorlanıyorsunuz. Bi şeyler dönüyor, kızı kucakladığı gibi götürüyor başka diyarlara.
Ama hikayenin finalini sevmediğimi söyleyemem. Kitabı okumaya çalışırken "ulan ben bi bok anlamıyorum" sıkıntısını o kadar güzel çözüyor ve feraha çıkarıyor ki "her şey bu mesajın metaforuymuş" diyerek huzura ulaşıyorsunuz. O ferahlama biraz ölümü gösterip sıtmaya razı etmeye benziyor ama olsun. Sayfalar boyunca hissettiğimiz "bağla ulan hikayeyi artık bir yere" hissini çok iyi toparlıyor.
Kitabın Avrupalı ve Amerikalı okuyucudan yüksek not almasının bana göre mantığı da verdiği sosyal mesaj. Batı bu küçük oyunlardan çok fazla etkileniyor.
İlginç bir çizgi roman macerası peşine düşerseniz ve farklı bir hikaye anlatısı görmek isterseniz kesinlikle öneririm.
Ayrıca belirtmekte fayda var: Nada kitap'ın ilk 3 seçkisinden benim yüzümü güldürebileni olmadı ama... Bu ama çok önemli. Bu durum işlerin kötülüğünden ziyade çok daha niş, çok özel bir okuyucu kitlesine kitap etmesinden kaynaklanıyor. Gerçekten farklı bir tür çizgi romanın peşindeler. Gösterdikleri emek epey kıymetli.
Bu sebepten Lale Westvind'ten de bu işle ilgili beklentim epeyce yüksekti. Ama büyük bir hayal kırıklığı ile sonuçlandı. Kitap, nazarımda insan haklarının çokça geliştiği bir Avrupa ülkesinde çekilmiş 8 mart kamu spotu filminin uzatıla uzatıla çizgi roman yapılmış versiyonu.
Ana karakterimiz olan kadın, günün birinde çarpılıyor mu, kendisine bir mucize mi bağışlanıyor noluyorsa artık o "o encuazda bi elamet geldi vuhuuuuuu" diyerekten elleriyle harikalar yaratıyor. Harikalar dediğimde öyle basit şeyler değil ha. Tezgahta köfte yapmaktan, ağaç doğrayıp ev yapmaya, uçup kaçıp havalarda süzülmeye kadar her şeyi yapabiliyor. Müfettiş Gadget gibi, eller her yola gidiyor her şeyi yapıyor. Bi ara aşık oluyor sanırım. Sanırım diyorum çünkü hikayeyi betimleyen çizimler bi noktada o kadar karışıyor ki ne olduğunu idrak etmekte zorlanıyorsunuz. Bi şeyler dönüyor, kızı kucakladığı gibi götürüyor başka diyarlara.
Ama hikayenin finalini sevmediğimi söyleyemem. Kitabı okumaya çalışırken "ulan ben bi bok anlamıyorum" sıkıntısını o kadar güzel çözüyor ve feraha çıkarıyor ki "her şey bu mesajın metaforuymuş" diyerek huzura ulaşıyorsunuz. O ferahlama biraz ölümü gösterip sıtmaya razı etmeye benziyor ama olsun. Sayfalar boyunca hissettiğimiz "bağla ulan hikayeyi artık bir yere" hissini çok iyi toparlıyor.
Kitabın Avrupalı ve Amerikalı okuyucudan yüksek not almasının bana göre mantığı da verdiği sosyal mesaj. Batı bu küçük oyunlardan çok fazla etkileniyor.
İlginç bir çizgi roman macerası peşine düşerseniz ve farklı bir hikaye anlatısı görmek isterseniz kesinlikle öneririm.
Ayrıca belirtmekte fayda var: Nada kitap'ın ilk 3 seçkisinden benim yüzümü güldürebileni olmadı ama... Bu ama çok önemli. Bu durum işlerin kötülüğünden ziyade çok daha niş, çok özel bir okuyucu kitlesine kitap etmesinden kaynaklanıyor. Gerçekten farklı bir tür çizgi romanın peşindeler. Gösterdikleri emek epey kıymetli.
December 29, 2022
An illustration masterpiece! I love the subtle hints of self-discovery and whimsical sense of color. The fluid proportions of size and riso overlay made for a vivid play of story that really did no words to understand. My only issue was the excessive use of my hands. I understand the title is Grip but felt that 3 pages of hand-twirling air were a little much. Would have liked to explore the character of the child or how her life was before the hand transformation?
Overall this was a Christmas gift I chose for myself. I will enjoy putting it on myself to admire and visit now and again! Possibly even lend it to my niece!
Overall this was a Christmas gift I chose for myself. I will enjoy putting it on myself to admire and visit now and again! Possibly even lend it to my niece!
January 21, 2024
Yani ana fikir ve çizimler güzel de neredeyse 100'den fazla sessiz çizgi roman okumuşumdur (hatta kıymetli Ozan Bilaloğlu'nun Weird Myths'inin editörlüğünü bile yaptım) sessiz çizgi romanı sessiz çizgi roman yapan kelime olmadan anlatabilmektir istenileni ama maalesef Grip bu konuda sınıfta kalmış.Ne olduğu belli olmayan çizimler nerden fırladığı belli olmayan karakterler vs vs.Yine de Lale Westvind'in güzel çizimleri ve bu tarz kitapların ülkemizde artması niyetiyle alınabilir.
November 30, 2022
Impresionante!
El silencio le permite la fuerza desbordada de las imágenes. Un cómic contemporáneo completamente, va más allá de las formas convencionales de expresión de movimiento. Una viñeta puede contener tanto tiempo como el está en nuestra mente. Los colores y las texturas son modernas.
Deli deli.
El silencio le permite la fuerza desbordada de las imágenes. Un cómic contemporáneo completamente, va más allá de las formas convencionales de expresión de movimiento. Una viñeta puede contener tanto tiempo como el está en nuestra mente. Los colores y las texturas son modernas.
Deli deli.
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April 23, 2025es muy curioso leer un cómic sin diálogo pues al final toda la significación recae en lo visual. El arte de esta artista en concreto es una locura tanto por los trazos como la paleta de colores pero es efectivo para la historia que quiere mostrar.
Como proceso de lectura (?) me ha resultado muy original y diferente
Como proceso de lectura (?) me ha resultado muy original y diferente
October 8, 2025
Exhilarating from start to finish. I read in one sitting. Several years ago I tried to get this from ILL but they sent me volume two of the original risograph zines instead. Which looked amazing! I had no idea what was going on though. Seeing both together for the full ride was worth the wait, and the publisher did an amazing job reproducing the original riso colors.
February 1, 2022
I love it! The silent story and art are so creative and brilliant!
May 12, 2022
She draws with her full body and the result is a feast for the soul. Super recommended!
January 13, 2023
really fun read. Still dont know what really happened but will have to read again soon. beautiful art.
February 8, 2023
pure fucking fire
April 28, 2023
Brilliant expression of making, being, and flowing through the world
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