Shade and light, layout and storyboard can give a story an organic sense of flow and a greater depth and weight. In my mind, great graphic novels use the pictures to communicate and bring greater emotionality and dimension to the story. The book is true to the graphic novel form in its interdependence of pictures and words, but doesn’t take full advantage of the possibilities the form provides. Likewise, Leavitt’s writing is often sketched her passages are truncated and lack embellishment. Leavitt’s drawings feel like sketches – they often lack detail and stray from realism to a more cartoonish bent. “Tangles” is a graphic memoir, of sorts, in which Leavitt tries to unpack the heartache and frustrations of watching her strong, independent, witty mother disappear and eventually die from early-onset Alzheimer’s. In “Tangles”, Sarah Leavitt writes about “Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me”.
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