![]() ![]() I remember that urge to procreate and the conflict it stirred up. ![]() The Hard Tomorrow jumps ahead into the near future, extrapolating from the joys and terrors of being alive today in an increasingly fascist political climate, under the gloom of rising global temperatures, extinction rates and human violence.Īnd yet the protagonist, Hannah, wants to have a baby. The story itself is in constant motion-acts of protest, lovemaking, driving across town, feeding kittens, all of it flows with loose ink lines, black and white balancing one another beautifully. The drawings in this book move on the page. The lines have a fluidity to them that animates the images. There is a kind of resonance to the drawings in The Hard Tomorrow, something I feel every time I see work by Eleanor Davis. I sit outside in the shade of a warming October sky, surrounded by ordinary sounds of dogs panting, going for a swim, people playing in the park beyond my back wall. To read Eleanor Davis’s new graphic novel The Hard Tomorrow (Drawn and Quarterly, 2019), I sense this cartoon magic. What I love about graphic storytelling is how closely it can mirror life as it happens. ![]()
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