Tender

Name: Tender
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By Beth Hetland

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New York Public Library Best Comics for Adults 2024 NPR Books We Love 2024 Comic Book Herald Best Comics of 2024 WBEZ Chicago Best Reads of 2024 Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal,... Read More

Format: Hardback

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A psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life.

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New York Public Library Best Comics for Adults 2024

NPR Books We Love 2024

Comic Book Herald Best Comics of 2024

WBEZ Chicago Best Reads of 2024

Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family. She carefully performs her own roles (gal pal, bestie, girlfriend, wife, and expectant mother) and in trying to enact agency over her life, sacrifices it completely. Her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing. When things don't go her way, she exerts dominance over the one thing she does have total control over: her body; until that "betrays" her. After suffering a horrible loss, Carolanne spirals into a literal, all-consuming delusion that will engross comics readers and horror aficionados alike.

Chicago cartoonist and educator Beth Hetland's graphic novel debut is a brilliant psychological thriller that tears down the wall of a genre — body horror — so often identified with male creators. Heady and visceral, Tender uses horrific tropes to confront women's societal expectations of self-sacrifice despite those traditional roles often coming at the expense of female sexuality and empowerment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683969358

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 March 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 148 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 157.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 162

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Beth Hetland Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

Beth Hetland is a Professor, Adj. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches several comics and comics adjacent courses. She holds an MFA (2011) from The Center for Cartoon Studies and BFA (2009) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.