RaveThe Arkansas International... a revelatory exploration of hitchhiking across Europe, living other people’s journeys, and finding out that anarchism isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Politics, poverty, loneliness, parenting, the law—all are fraught with contradictions ... To use a term like autofiction wouldn’t be quite right, but it gets at what Yanow does so earnestly and sincerely—telling a story about learning who you really are and what boundaries are needed to preserve that self, and of course there is the always fun lesson of how to use wikis to find the right French gas stations to hitchhike a ride away from Paris ... Yanow’s art is breathtakingly understated and masterfully weighted. Yanow, when asked about the difference between comics in France and America, said that in France, all comic artists are trained as fine artists, and Yanow’s emotive, thin lines do more work developing character and theme than most fiction does with entire plotlines. Sophie Yanow is a revelation.
