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Invisible Ink : My Mother's Secret Love Affair with A Famous Cartoonist!! - Bill Griffith

Invisible Ink

My Mother's Secret Love Affair with A Famous Cartoonist!!

By: Bill Griffith

Hardcover | 1 October 2015 | Edition Number 1

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Fifteen minutes after Bill Griffith's father died from a bicycle accident in 1972, his mother turned to him and said, 'If I don't tell you this now, I'll never be able to tell you. I had a long and happy relationship with a man you knew slightly.' Thus began Griffith's journey to reconstruct this hidden relationship between his mother and a deeply cultured jack-of-all-trades cartoonist and crime novelist. Griffith finally discovers the holy grail of his mother's past: her diary, an eloquent testament to her deepest feelings. Invisible Ink reveals the mother he never knew.
Industry Reviews

What makes this story extraordinary is that Bill Griffith has definitely met his match with his mother who gives his storytelling skills a run for their money. If truth is stranger than fiction, then this must be one hell of an example of that. It boggled the mind of Bill Griffith, one of the great mind-bogglers in comics.

--Henry Chamberlain "Comics Grinder"
Starred Review: [Griffith's] intricate drawing style, which exploits a range of backdrops, from blank to near-photorealistic depictions of architecture, complements the richness of hisverbal narration and the veracity and particularity of the dialogue he creates for the many relatives andfamily friends he portrays ... [A]bsorbing and moving.--Ray Olson "Booklist"
[Invisible Ink] is an elegant, serious, well-crafted book from an artist who works with a kind of serious fury that's kept him going for years and years now.--Tom Spurgeon "The Comics Reporter"
[Invisible Ink] might be Griffith's best work to date, an emotional, intimate, and almost startlingly sympathetic look at the secrets we hide from our family and how we often fail to see our parents as fully rounded people, ultimately to our own detriment.--Chris Mautner "The Comics Journal"
Already a pioneer of underground comix, and perhaps the last great daily comic strip artist (his Zippy the Pinhead carries giddily on), Bill Griffith now earns yet another distinction, as memoirist. Invisible Ink is a dense, digressive personal essay that tries to understand the fading world of his parents - especially his mother, an irrepressible and adventurous soul ... [W]ith his meticulous, etching-like drawings and conversational tone, Bill Griffith imagines his mother's ambitions and passions with empathy and stirring respect.--Sean Rogers "The Globe and Mail"

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