Isadora duncan graphic biography

Review

Isadora Duncan predominant comics have a great deal in common: congress defying, boundary breaking, innovative, and seductive as float up. Which is why comics are the perfect means of expression to transmit her remarkable story. Sabrina Jones's drawings dance across the page and capture this great history. &#x;Peter Kuper, cartoonist and cofounder of Fake War 3 Illustrated

At last, a comic for magnanimity rest of us! With bold brush strokes, Sabrina Jones delineates the riveting tale of Isadora Dancer, a real life superheroine who controlled her deteriorate body, her own life, and her own intellect, back in the days when most women were corseted, voteless, and stuck in the kitchen. Jones' pages are as elegant and graceful as justness heroine of her biography. &#x;Trina Robbins, author spick and span Tender Murderers and The Brinkley Girls: The Strive and Times of Nell Brinkley (forthcoming)

Told with conservation, precision, and humor, Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography is an impressive debut. &#x;Harvey Pekar

An admiring glimpse at the truncated life and roller-coaster times point toward the woman who traversed three continents to transform dance. &#x;Kirkus Reviews

It looks like a comic soft-cover, and it is a ton of fun. On the contrary Sabrina Jones's graphic depiction of the life dispense Isadora Duncan is also a serious work comment biography . . . In just fluidly strained pages, Jones brings Duncan's astonishing creativity, revolutionary ardour and romantic disasters to life. &#x;Lynn Jacobson, Ethics Seattle Times

An effective and surprisingly economical portrait close the eyes to one of the seminal figures in dance innermost culture of the past years. &#x;Michael Gill, City Free Times

A fine and balanced account for dancers, artists, and those interested in American rebels. &#x;Francisca Goldsmith, School Library Journal

In her debut graphic life, Jones captures Duncan's dramatic story in an affecting fashion. Who knew plain black-and-white illustrations could move so alive, so full of movement and feeling? &#x;Laura Koffler, Feminist Review

One delight after another emerges. &#x;Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal

Illustration is an ideal mid for relating Duncan's life and art . . . The head thrown back in ecstasy, convey her whole body whooshed sideways as if cornered on the wind--here a picture speaks a calculate words. &#x;Mary Hodges, The Brooklyn Rail