Sensitive Creatures
Allen & Unwin, $24.99 pb, 304 pp
Graphic Novel
Sensitive Creatures by Mandy Ord
by Ronnie Scott •
It’s a simple proposition: short graphic stories about city life, and one narrator – Mandy Ord – drawn with a single bulging eye. But the slice-of-life stories in Sensitive Creatures are rarely straightforward. Sweeping and brittle, kinetic and lush, this is a consistently surprising volume, at once an autobiography, a collection of vignettes, and a comprehensive catalogue of an artist’s career.
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