You and a Bike and a Road
In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation. Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist and illustrator. She lives in Athens, GA and was born in Tucson, Arizona. In 2009, Davis won the Eisner's Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award and was named one of Print magazine's New Visual Artists. In 2015, her book How To Be Happy won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection.
Reviews
Jeannette Ordas@kickpleat
"Wake up. Move through space." This is one of the final lines in Eleanor Davis' bike tour comic and it's a nice summary of her bike trip from Tucson to Georgia. Knee pain, depression, anxiety and the daily struggles of wanting to give up told through her interactions with others, her loneliness and her simple pencil drawings on the road. 3.5 stars.
Amy Thibodeau@amythibodeau
Lovely, ephemeral, kind.
Jeremy Cote@cote
This was a fun book to read. It was quick, but Davis draws just how I imagine I would draw if I didn't stick to stick figures. Her lines are rough, jittery, but always expressive, and it was so cool to see a journal in graphic form. As a long-distance athlete myself, I enjoyed this meditation on doing something physical like this.
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