{"title":"Megan Kelso","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMegan Kelso\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts intimate and thought-provoking graphic novels that blend sharp storytelling with evocative artwork. Her narratives often explore everyday moments with a subtle depth, inviting readers into lives both ordinary and extraordinary through a unique visual voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom tender family interactions in \u003cem\u003eWho Will Make the Pancakes\u003c\/em\u003e to the quirky charm of \u003cem\u003eArtichoke Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, Kelso’s work offers a nuanced exploration of human connections and personal reflections that resonate long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"artichoke-tales-by-megan-kelso-9781683966753","title":"Artichoke Tales","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrior to cartoonist Megan Kelso's long-awaited 2022 release, \u003cem\u003eWho Will Make the Pancakes\u003c\/em\u003e, Kelso spent six years creating her first long-form graphic novel, 2010's \u003cem\u003eArtichoke Tales\u003c\/em\u003e. The book, a fantastic family saga spanning three generations and an entire continent, was a critical smash named to many \"Best of 2010\" lists. Fantagraphics is proud to bring this perennial classic back in print with a new paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtichoke Tales\u003c\/em\u003e is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Brigitte whose family is caught between the two warring sides of a civil war. It takes place in a world that echoes our own, but whose people have artichoke leaves instead of hair. Influenced in equal parts by \u003cem\u003eLittle House on the Prairie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Thorn Birds\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDharma Bums\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCold Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, Kelso weaves a moving story about family amidst war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKelso's visual storytelling uniquely combines delicate linework with rhythmic page compositions, creating a dramatic tension between intimate, ruminative character studies and the unflinching depiction of the consequences of war and carnage, lending cohesion and resonance to a generational epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423813976300,"sku":"9781683966753","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61sGClfUHKL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774430977"},{"product_id":"who-will-make-the-pancakes-by-megan-kelso-9781683966708","title":"Who Will Make the Pancakes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Graphic Novels of 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, Best Graphic Novels of 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Will Make the Pancakes\u003c\/em\u003e collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years—roughly contemporaneously with the author's own journey as a mother—wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with \"Watergate Sue,\" originally serialized in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e over six months in 2007. Spanning two generations of mothers and daughters, Eve's obsession with Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal throughout 1973 heightens her self-doubt about whether she wants to raise more children (resonantly mirroring the anxiety many of us had while doom scrolling our way through the Trump administration). Some 30 years later, her daughter, Sue, is now grown and beginning her own family, attempting to reconcile her mother's experience with her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cats in Service\" is a contemporary fable about how a death in the family leads a young couple to adopt several cats who have been expertly trained to tend to their every need. \"The Egg Room\" profiles middle-aged Florence, caught between dreams of how her life might have unfolded and the shrunken reality. \"The Golden Lasso\" turns the focus to adolescence, using rock climbing as a set piece for a story about innocence lost, while \"Korin Voss\" chronicles a few months in the life of a single mother in the late 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaken collectively, \u003cem\u003eWho Will Make the Pancakes\u003c\/em\u003e showcases Kelso's unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story's needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455879856364,"sku":"9781683966708","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781683966708.jpg?v=1774863093"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/megan-kelso.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}