Idiosyncratic, Dimension-Hopping 'Skip' Creates Its Own Niche
Molly Mendoza's loopy new graphic novel isn't quite a young adult book, or a book for grownups, either. But it is a trippy visual experience, and Mendoza's art is gorgeous even when the story is thin.
by Etelka Lehoczky
Jul 31, 2019
2 minutes
Sometimes a book deserves attention not for what it is, but for what it isn't. Molly Mendoza's graphic novel isn't a lot of things. It isn't typical of any of the genres that dominate comics today, for one thing: It's not an action-packed serial adventure, a revealing memoir or an arty exploration of formal principles. It also isn't a book that will immediately attract grown-up readers, and yet it probablyis a polyhedron-shaped peg in a world of round holes.
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