September 29, 2006
Bill Sherman
Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman!
The cover to Fat Free, Jude Milner and Mary Wilshire's "Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman," is more than a little ironically misdirecting. Centered on the image of a spandex-clad fat woman confidently flying above the city toward the reader, the graphic deliberately recalls cartoonist Ned Sonntag's fat-acceptance superheroine, Dimensia, even as the text between the covers undercuts Sonntag's original iconic message of self-esteem. ......................snip
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/29/051140.php
William
Bill Sherman
Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman!
The cover to Fat Free, Jude Milner and Mary Wilshire's "Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman," is more than a little ironically misdirecting. Centered on the image of a spandex-clad fat woman confidently flying above the city toward the reader, the graphic deliberately recalls cartoonist Ned Sonntag's fat-acceptance superheroine, Dimensia, even as the text between the covers undercuts Sonntag's original iconic message of self-esteem. ......................snip
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/09/29/051140.php
William
