If you have not read the graphic novel F-Stop by Antony Johnson and Matthew Loux, I recomend you don't read this post because I reveal the ending. Thanks!
Over the week-end, it was pouring, and I was in no mood to go outside, so, I had to find something to do right? My TV wasn't hooked up yet, my interent was down, and we had no paper to draw on. I Finally decided that staring at the wall all day, wasn't an option, so I ran in the cold to my neighborhood comic store and baught four graphic novels. I read them all in 2 hours and had to again find something to do but that's not the point. The point is that one of these graphic novels, was one of the best graphic novels I have read in my life. The way it was drawn was different from usual, the story based itself off of photography (which is one of my favroite hobbies) and had a very interest plot.
F-Stop by Antony Johnson and Matthew Loux is a story about a young artist with a masters degree in English, but can't kick off his dream life as a fashion photographer. One day he mates an attractive woman and his friends, trying to help him out, tell this woman he is a a grand and famous fashion photographer. What luck! This woman was a model! That night the young man goes home not expecting the next day to get a call from Gauche, the most famous magazing in fashion industry. The attractive woman had been a model for Gauche, and that day, Gauche needed a photographer, she they called up the old photographer and asked him to fill in for a missing photographer. Only the young man didn't know that dozens of problems lay ahead.
F-Stop was my favorite graphic novel from the four I read because it was different. It wasn't just about a young girl solving a mystery or four teenagers running around in the big city crashing into problems. It taught me that if you work hard enough, you can make your dream come true. This graphic novel also taught me that you do need other people to help you face your problems. The fact that the graphic novel had great lessons, interesting pictures and it's based off of one of my most favorite things to do, was marvelous. Thank you F-Stop, you saved my weekend!
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nice post, nina! i love how graphic novels can incorporate so much because they are made of words and pictures. i also like how this post was narrative-like.
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