This book has been on my to-read list for a while, and I'm glad I finally snagged it. It's a beautifully drawn black and white comics memoir of self-esteem, eating disorders, recovery and body positivity. At the start of the book, Lacy is an art student living in Portland, Oregon. She's a punk, a zine maker, a feminist, a voracious reader, bisexual and owner of many Bikini Kill albums. But despite her politics, the seeds of a deep body anxiety are waiting in the dark to grown into an addiction to exercise and food control which ends up taking over Lacy's entire life. Her path to recovery is long and includes some painful set backs, but with art, music, and love at her side Lacy works to regain her balance and move forward.

Set in a hotel in Florida in the early 1960s, the heroine of this comic is Goldie Vance, officially a valet but unofficially a detective. Most of her cases are fairly simple lost-item recoveries, but when an escaped German rocket scientist comes to stay, only to be kidnapped by unknown agents, Goldie suddenly finds a much bigger case in her lap that she's use to. This comic is well drawn, beautifully colored and has an endearing queer crush sub-plot, but I have no nostalgia for this particular era. I'd probably have been more invested in the story if it was set closer to the present day.

I just received this book as a gift, and its gorgeous. It's the first of a series set in a rich, diverse, well developed historical fantasy kingdom. Lady Pyppenia is the illegitimate daughter of the King of Harbeny and a well-known star-reader from the allied nation of Mribesh. The book opens just after her father has passed away and his brother is crowned the new King, making Poppy's position at court even more tenuous. The widowed Queen considers Poppy family and invites her to the dowager estate, but the new King wants to keep her in the capital- even after she survives an assassination attempt. Poppy feels the walls closing in on all sides, and the only person she can fully trust is a Sleepless Knight, Cyrenic, who is oath bound to her. The mages and healers of Harbeny can shift a person around in time- taking health from the end of a life to cure a current illness, or taking wakefulness from the future to hold off sleep. Cyrenic has not slept in three years, watching over his Lady's life constantly. But even his vigilance might not be enough to keep them both from destruction. The art reminds me of the illustration team of Leo and Diane Dillion, in all the best ways.