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Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers Paperback Book

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DAQ46348

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Drawn & Quarterly

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Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers Paperback Book

An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jafe Foundation Award-winning cartoonist, Ebony Flowers.

Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighbourhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touch-points that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealising women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page.

Realisations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.

ISBN-13: 978-1770463486

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Dimensions: 22.9cm x 16.6cm

Cover: Paperback

Pages: 184

Colour: Black & White

Writer / Artist / Cover Artist: Ebony Flowers

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SKU	DAQ46348
Barcode	9781770463486
Manufacturer	Drawn & Quarterly
Brand	Graphic Novels
Price	$22.70
Pennies	70
Dimensions	22.9cm x 16.6cm
Preorder	No

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