Comments on: Confessions of a Blabbermouth

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:48:47 +0000

whoa…I loved it.

By: Minx Now and Future » Comics Worth Reading

Minx Now and Future » Comics Worth Reading — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:26:59 +0000

[...] Confessions of a Blabbermouth [...]

By: Kimmie66 » Comics Worth Reading

Kimmie66 » Comics Worth Reading — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:08:48 +0000

[...] distinctive look works better for me here than in Confessions of a Blabbermouth, since most of the settings are artificial. His exaggerations fit better in such an environment, [...]

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Nov. 29, 2007: A midwinter night’s Dullsville

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:26:04 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson on Mike Carey, Louise Carey and Aaron Alexovich’s Confessions of a [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:53:50 +0000

I enjoyed Confessions for the most part, though didn’t love it or anything – see http://shuffleboil.com/2007/11/17/review-minx-books/ for shameless self promotion of my opinions about it (actually, now that I look back on it, I don’t really have much to say about it, but still) – but your points about its weak points are well taken and I mostly agree. The tone of the book is so over the top and cartoonish, though, that I just took it as an amusing but ultimately unimportant and quick diversion.

What struck me about it for the most part is that despite the involvement of an actual teenage girl, the characterizations of the teenagers in it seemed no more or less genuine than the titles written by grown-up guys (The Plain Janes remains the most realistic to me in that area, but that was written by a grown-up lady). I dunno, seemed like it should’ve been a revelation because of that, but it was just another book.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:24:43 +0000

That’s a great point, and I’m afraid I may not have made my point there clearly: it’s easy to write good venom about blogging. Why is this supposed attack example so toothless?

By: Jennifer de Guzman

Jennifer de Guzman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:01:25 +0000

The parallels between the writing team and the characters struck me as odd as well. But I can imagine how it came about without thinking that Confessions isn’t fiction.

Why does Tasha get so upset at a pretty innocuous column about bloggers in the paper?

I think I remember being a teenager well enough to answer this: Because Tasha’s a teenager, and she takes things that are general personally, especially since it was written by one of her peers whom she happens not to like already. When I was fifteen, a columnist in the local paper wrote something denigrating about teenagers, and I got kind of pissed. I even wrote a letter to the editor in response and got annoyed that the editor turned an exclamation point into a period when they printed it.