Jordan Morris

Since this movie is powered by nostalgia, I thought I would give a recommendation that also gave me a lot of good nostalgia feels.

It is a graphic novel called Raised by Ghosts by Brianna Lowenson, a great cartoonist.

This actually just got nominated for an Eisner Award.

The Oscar is a comic book, so this is a good one.

This is a memoir comic about growing up, going to high school in the 90s.

So, you know, you get a lot of great music references, you get a lot of great fashion, but it's not just that.

There's also a really kind of like beautiful, sad, funny story here.

This is Brianna's story about growing up with divorced parents who are kind of absent and her kind of like making her way into the adult world.

Mm-hmm.

It has these kind of beautiful painterly visuals, but all the dialogue, I think this is really brilliant, all the dialogue is from her kind of past notes in high school.

So the notes you kind of fold up elaborately and hand to your friends, and it's like diary entries too.

So all of the dialogue is the stuff she was feeling and thinking at the time, and then kind of going with these kind of largely dialogless visuals.

It's a really, really clever way to tell this story.

So yeah,

Yeah, it's Raised by Ghosts.

It's by Brianna Lowenson, and it's fantastic.

Joelle, make that three.

Thanks, Glenn.

Was it the friends we made along the way?

Was that the power?