1 December 2008
Do you want to take the stairs or the lift?
Posted by Greg under: Friends .
“This is a thrilling, beautiful, funny, scary graphic novel. It is a comic book by one of the best creators that we have in Australia. It is our privilege to hold, and read, a first edition of it and to be able to salute its author in person, en masse.”
Well, that year went fast.
I thought that, a year on, I might write a few things on what I thought of Rooftops by Mandy Ord. I didn’t say anything much at the time, partly out a feeling of not wanting to intrude in any way on the “spotlight”, and partly out of being a little close to events that inspired the story itself. The coincidence – the actual coincidence – made as big an impact on me as it does to Ord’s character in the book.
The emphasis is on I thought and I might. But now, even a year later, I’m reluctant to say much more than how great I think the book really is, how wonderful the memories I have are of that night at the movies, of seeing the pages as they were drawn, of holding the book for the first time, and finally how glad and thankful I am to have seen these pictures drawn and this story told.