Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

Certainly an enlightening insight into the lives of two women during differing parts of the 20th century. The art is very expressive, and gets the characters' emotions across just fine. Overall though, I thought that the "graphic" part of the graphic novel was rather underwhelming.

I have somehow found myself in the sub-sub-sub-genre of intellectual/philosophical biographical comix. And I am fine with that!

This is an interesting, meditative, and infuriating part-memoir about the author, whose father was a big Joycean scholar, and Lucia Joyce, the ill-fated daughter of James. There are many parallels between these two womens' lives: namely, their dads... how can I put this kindly... okay, I can't, I'm just so angry... Okay, the main parallel is the FRICKIN PATRIARCHY crushing them oppressively all the damn time.

I had no idea about Lucia Joyce, and I find James Joyce (and Joycean studies?) kind of insufferable. So this just made me even more annoyed with that whole lot.