There’s Vy, a model who regrets being the face of a product that enforced false beauty standards Bron, a self-hating cyclops haunted by a failed eye surgery Pari, an anxious mother-to-be married to a two-eyed spouse Pol, lonely and trying to date and Jian and Grae, two artists trying to make their stamp on a two-eyed world.ĭhaliwal’s art is charming and expressive. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real.
And the characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. Stories, Etna tells us, can define us-whether it’s the one we tell ourselves, or the ones told about us. But as Dhaliwal arrives at the modern era-in which a cyclops sex icon Etna graces the cover of a pornographic magazine-the form falls away to loosely interconnected stories about cyclopes and their lives. The opening pages of this graphic novel by Dhaliwal ( Woman World) employ the rigid language of a fictional encyclopedia, sketching the history of cyclopes and their fluctuating relationship with the dominant “two eyes” culture.
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