The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo Social stigma

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This heartfelt graphic biography is a tribute to the artist’s grandmothers and a generation of women who quietly soldiered through over forty years of Fascist rule in Spain

‘Lizzy Stewart is one of comics’ great observers of those seemingly smaller moments of human existence

The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo Social stigmaBy Kadya Molodowsky & Batia Kolton. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 28 pages, Colour, 2019. This comic in childrens book format is about the whimsical lifespan of a coat, worn by each child in a family. When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat with pride all year, but when it gets too tight for himhes a growing boy, after allits given to his