Shoplifter by Michael Cho5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() As the novel opens, she’s just mouthed off during a brainstorming meeting for a product targeting “ine to twelves.” Asked for input, she suggests the tagline, “Daddy says I smell special.” She defends herself with a deadpan indictment: “It’s perfume. But she has worked at an advertising agency, writing copy, for the past five years. She has a degree in English and aspirations to become a novelist. Michael Cho’s “Shoplifter’’ is that rare thing, a graphic novel debut in which text and illustrations fit together like two halves of the same mind as a result, the taut story told here makes an impact and manages to show distinctiveness while doing so.Ĭorrina Park, the novel’s heroine, is messed up you might almost call her creepy, if she weren’t so familiar. ![]() In order for a graphic novel to be memorable, it must fulfill both parts of its genre label: The graphics must be arresting enough to justify their presence on the page, and the words must be well-composed. ![]()
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