Ghost
Wallpaper
Makers
Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, and editor from New Jersey. She won a 2012 Glyph Award (Rising Star) for her comic, Watermelon, and received two subsequent nominations in 2013 for her comic, Boxes. Her series, Madtown High, was nominated for an Ignatz Award in 2013 for Outstanding series, and her webcomic, The Fabric of Appropriation, was nominated for Slate's Cartoonist Studio Prize for best webcomic of the year in 2016. In addition to self-publishing, her comics have been published by Sparkplug Books (2015 Best American Comics Notable Comic, The Anthropologists), Ninth Art Press, The Nib, Fusion, and others. She has also written for The Comics Journal, Panel Patter, Nat Brut, and Comics Workbook. She currently lives in New York City with her boyfriend and cacti.
Though the topics are heavy, they are told in such a lighthearted,
kind way that it never becomes oppressive. These “ghost” stories
won’t depress or scare you, but they will give you lots to chew
on.
--Strange Horizons
As a whole, Ghost Stories serves as Taylor’s love letter
to art and the artistic process. Perhaps the brother of the
narrator in “Wallpaper” puts it best when he notes how ghosts can
be useful—even the creepy flowered wallpaper has its upside:
“Ghosts live between the petals . . . .They’re soft, so they make
good mattresses.” Ghosts can be a challenge, of course, but Taylor
reminds us that they also rest at the heart of all the best
stories.
--Commons Comics
Overall, an outstanding collection by Taylor which showcases her
talents as a storyteller. The stories by Taylo, are funny,
melancholy, and moving. The art by Taylor is gorgeous. Altogether,
a graphic novel which gets readers entrenched in the experiences
and gets the reader to fall in love with the characters.
--Graphic Policy
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