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"'A bicycle is a machine that you power yourself. You decide where you want to go, ' writes cartoonist Powerpaola, as the guiding principle of this graphic memoir. All My Bicycles is a story that never really begins, existing all at once in Paola's memory. The book illustrates Powerpaola's relationships through her many bicycles: in fragments, it takes her back to her great loves and losses, friendships, and disappointments. In remembering a bicycle, a manhole, an alligator, or a necklace, Powerpaola reflects upon these items in her consciousness without finding a concrete solution. Paola's…mehr

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"'A bicycle is a machine that you power yourself. You decide where you want to go, ' writes cartoonist Powerpaola, as the guiding principle of this graphic memoir. All My Bicycles is a story that never really begins, existing all at once in Paola's memory. The book illustrates Powerpaola's relationships through her many bicycles: in fragments, it takes her back to her great loves and losses, friendships, and disappointments. In remembering a bicycle, a manhole, an alligator, or a necklace, Powerpaola reflects upon these items in her consciousness without finding a concrete solution. Paola's memories arrive abruptly and leave just as fast, creating a pathway through herself she can only find in moving forward. All My Bicycles is a glimpse into how exploring these fleeting tangible moments -- of physical objects, of traveling and seeing a new city, of even the end of a relationship -- is an exploration of self"--
Autorenporträt
Powerpaola is a Colombian Ecuadorian cartoonist and visual artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She authored the graphic memoir Virus Tropical (2011), which became a movie in 2017 and received critical acclaim worldwide. Por Dentro (2012), Diario (2013), qp (2013), Todo Va a Estar Bien (2015), and Nos vamos (2016) followed. Her work deals with themes of sexuality, feminism, family, and personal identity. She was a member of the international collective Chicks on Comics and No Tan Parecidos and published Las Ciudades que Somos (2018) and Tierra Larga (2019) with them, respectively.