Sabrina

203 pages

English language

Published Sept. 9, 2018 by Drawn & Quarterly.

ISBN:
978-1-77046-316-5
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OCLC Number:
1004939322

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4 stars (20 reviews)

"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--

3 editions

Review of 'Sabrina' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

There's this thing that happens where people who don't read comics occasionally all decide to read a random "serious" comic, and then decide it's great because it doesn't have Batman in it.

I fall for this every time, and read these dreadful books waiting for some event on the last page that redeems the rest of the book. It never happens.

Nominally a story about fake news in the aftermath of a grisly murder and it's effects on people who knew the victim. Actually the story of a guy who is going thru a divorce and for some reason decided to take in a person that he barely knows. He gets incorporated into an online conspiracy theory and thus experiences online harassment for his trouble.

None of the characters experience any growth, any new understanding, any catharsis, or any insight about fake news. For the most part they are passive …

Review of 'Sabrina' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

3.5 stars rounded up to 4. The ordinariness of ordinary life must be hiding something. If life is a miracle who turned it boring? Well, maybe what its hiding is horrible and boring is an improvement; an escape from the horror, the horror. After all, who would hide awesomeness?

Unless it's not so much hidden as protected; stashed away so the horror doesn't ruin it. Or maybe it's we who are ruined. And maybe we're too busy fighting over whose fault it is.

Whatevs. It's too hard to figure it out. Should I hide this review because it contains spoilers for reality?

Review of 'Sabrina' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

 This is the first graphic novel I've ever purchased. I've read a few over the years, at the library, but I've never bought one. I bought Sabrina because I read that it was the first graphic novel ever to make the long list of the Man Booker Prize (the short list will be announced Sept. 20).
 Here's a good description (and part plug) of the book, stolen from themanbookerprize.com:

Where is Sabrina?
The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape which is en route to several news outlets, and about to go viral.
Sabrina is the story of what happens when an intimate, ‘everyday’ tragedy collides with the appetites of the 24-hour news cycle; when somebody’s lived trauma becomes another person’s gossip; when it becomes fodder for social media, fake news, conspiracy theorists, maniacs, the bored.


What's brilliant about Sabrina and probably other graphic novels is that it does …

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Subjects

  • Missing persons
  • Comic books, strips
  • Air forces
  • Fake news