Though sometimes spare, with minimal effort spent on backgrounds, her line manages to flow and skate through 29 stories of remarkable women.
It’s a powerful image, one that Bagieu doesn’t hesitate to draw into the strip.Īnd Bagieu’s drawings are wonderful. Beneath it her face is made up to look as if she’s been beaten: swollen eyes and bruised jaw. Alizadeh raps, “Let me scream, I’m tired of silence,” while lifting a Western-style wedding veil. The woman in the hijab turns out to be a contemporary Afghan rapper and refugee, Sonita Alizadeh, born in 1996, whose low-tech, unflinching music video about the fate of young girls sold into marriage went viral and helped her escape her own fate as a child bride. Who is she? This feels like an invitation. But who is the woman with the tight Afro? Or the one wearing the hijab? Or the older woman with the big, wild sunglasses? And one has a beard. I recognize a few of the faces right away: Tove Jansson, the creator of the Moomins cartoon characters and a green-faced Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West and the one who is winking, is that Josephine Baker? It is. The book’s tag line runs right down the middle: “Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World.” Behind them is a pale gold image of the sign for female merged with a power fist. It’s textured, with 12 striking cartoon portraits appearing in perfect circles so shiny they look like collectible pin-back buttons I’d like to have. Something about the cover of the French graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu’s new book, “Brazen,” makes you want to keep touching it. BRAZEN Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World By Pénélope Bagieu Illustrated.
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