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Lucky Penny

Autor Ananth Hirsh De (artist) Yuko Ota
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2016 – vârsta de la 13 până la 16 ani
If Penny Brighton didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it's okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there's bound to be career opportunities at the neighborhood laundromat—just look how fast that 12-year-old who runs the place made it to management! Plus, there's this sweet guy at the community center, and maybe Penny can even have a conversation with him without being a total dork. Surely Penny is a capable of becoming an actual responsible adult, and if she can do that her luck’s bound to change! Right?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620102879
ISBN-10: 1620102870
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Oni Press

Recenzii

SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL -- Penny, a young20-something who describes herself as having a "weird tattoo and a smokinghabit," is once again down on her luck. Recently both jobless and homeless, shemoves into her best friend's storage unit, where her primary companion is astray cat. Even though Penny concludes she is bad luck to those around her, sheis tenacious about improving her situation--even if it means she must work in alaundromat for a precocious, sarcastic (and, later we learn, vengeful) preteen.More mature teens will especially enjoy this humorous slice-of-life comic donein noir shades. The artwork is simple, yet the facial expressions are lively.Penny's insecurities navigating a budding romance with the nerdy yet lovableWalter come across as authentic and comical (especially when she imaginesscenarios inspired by cliched romance novels). The situations Penny findsherself in are at times fantastical, but readers can relate to her reactions,which are a mixture of awkwardness and sincerity. VERDICT Teens who havefollowed the misadventures of Penny Brighton online will enthusiasticallywelcome this print edition, which will surely create new fans.



BOOKLIST -- Previouslypublished as a webcomic, Hirsh and Ota's Lucky Penny follows aimlesstwenty-something Penny, who's anything but-you guessed it-lucky. Fired on theday she's moving out of the apartment she didn't choose to vacate, Penny isn'tgoing great. Her friend Helen saves the day (and readers can assume this isn'tthe first time), transferring her storage locker to Penny, who will live in it,and getting Penny a job at her parents' laundromat. Things are starting to lookup! She even finds a cat she names Boyfriend, and there's actual boyfriendpotential in the cute receptionist who sneaks her into the community center. ButPenny's not lucky. How long can this last? The comic's pace occasionallyquickens unexpectedly, and wild antics ensue when Penny's newfound safety andjob security are threatened. Ota's black-and-white cartoons are stylish andbright, and characters' faces are full of expression. Quirky Penny, likecharacters in the romance novels she loves, is all heart, and she'll easilycharm readers with her smoking, drinking, train-wreckstyle.



FOREWORD --Lucky Penny features a young woman who's on herown, but hasn't quite figured life out yet. It seems Penny's luck is all bad, asshe loses her job and her apartment, and ends up living in a storage unit andworking at the local laundromat. She develops a romantic interest in a young manwho works at the gym nearby, and trades barbs with the twelve-year-old who runsthe laundromat for his parents. There's also a bit of suspense when Penny'sstorage unit is broken into, but despite the plot twists, this graphic novelsucceeds on the ability of Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota to bring Penny and theother characters to life in a simple, quirky, charming way. Ota has worked on along list of publications, and she shows an expert hand in visual storytelling.She draws Penny's eyes using a myriad of styles: huge and watery, as black dotsor narrow slits, with no pupils or extra-wide pupils. In a hystericalthree-panel sequence, she uses this range to perfectly express Penny's panickedrealization that she's packed her car keys deep within the contents of herapartment. Penny is a poor soul who makes bad decisions, but she's lovablethroughout, and memorable even after the last page has been read. The graphicnovel universe should consider itself lucky to haveher.



PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) -- Penny Brighton,18, is something of a manic pixie, and by the end of this exceptionallyentertaining comic, she's on her way to becoming one guy's dream girl, eventhough disaster follows her everywhere. Part rom-com, part pop-culture parody,the story opens with Penny losing her job, parting ways with her friend/roommateHelen, and moving into Helen's newly empty storage unit. After Penny snags a jobat the Laundromat-which is managed by Helen's surly 11-year-old brother-shemeets geeky desk clerk Walter, and an awkward romance is born. Penny's storygrew out of Hirsh and Ota's Johnny Wander webcomic, and they're inperfect sync, delivering drily funny dialogue and outlandish visual comedy thatplays with conventions of film, manga, and geek culture (for her part, Pennyadores fantasy romance novels with titles like Dragon Lust andSuccubus Seduced, which she organizes “according tohotness”). The plot veers into action-thriller territory toward the end,blurring the lines between what's real and imagined, but Penny's idiosyncraticexuberance carries the day, and her hapless attempts to get her life in ordershould hit home with a broad range of readers.



Notă biografică

Yuko Ota is an award-winning cartoonist from Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with Abrams Books, Oni Press, BOOM!, Dark Horse, Lerner Publishing, and more. Her current focus is the Reuben Award-winning Barbarous, a comedy-drama involving magic and monster men.