![]() ![]() It gives fresh evidence of Wang’s deftness and grace as a comics artist: her characters live, her rhythms draw this reader breathlessly in, and her pages pop. A marvel of fluid, expressive cartooning, this book takes a fairly shopworn notion, that of the progressive fairy tale (often a go-to genre for feminist, gender-nonconforming subversiveness), and fills it with startling new life. I especially like the way it does not editorialize about desire but instead evokes it, often wordlessly, hauntingly-without moralistic signposting and with a florid style that captures the flush of recognition and the confusion of feelings that desire can bring. A genderbending YA fairy tale romance set in a make-believe Paris on the cusp of modernity-a Belle Époque Paris with haute couture and department stores but no trace of Industrial Age grime- The Prince and the Dressmaker tells a tender story of nonconformity, the delicate art of public personhood, and desire. All her books have been well reviewed and admired, but this one is likely to be remembered as her breakout, deservedly so. ![]() The Prince and the Dressmaker, Jen Wang’s new graphic novel, is her third, following Koko Be Good (2010) and In Real Life (2014). ![]()
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