Monday, March 31, 2025

Park Bench (by Christophe Chabouté)

For the RHC category "read a wordless comic." This is a graphic novel about a park bench and the lives that intersect with it. The author is French and you do see a word or two of graffiti, for example, which has been translated.  But this is largely wordless. 

 It's fun to follow all the small stories along the way.   From the old couple who shares a pastry on the bench every day to the unhoused man who sleeps on the bench to the skateboarder who rides his board along the bench.  But the ending is pretty sentimental (the ending of not just one of the vignettes, but all of the vignettes). If you don't mind that, it's sweet.  


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