![]() ![]() Writer Grace Ellis offers other descriptors in her introduction to the comic, calling it a story that would be told around a campfire, a fictionalized narrative, and, quoting Highsmith’s biographer, Joan Schenkar, a “fantasia.” I can only describe it as a story about a real person that, instead of striving to be pure fact, instead grapples with that person holistically. I want to be clear: Flung Out of Space is not a biography, and that is its greatest strength. It is a critical, caring, funny, and heartbreaking story in which the hands of the artist and author are visible and essential to depicting Patricia Highsmith as a whole, complex person.įlung Out of Space Grace Ellis (Writer), Hannah Templer (Artist) It’s also about her years-long attempt to try and expunge her desire for other women. At its simplest, Flung Out of Space is about Patricia Highsmith’s quest to escape the drudgery of writing comics and get her novels published, including Carol, considered the first lesbian romance with a happy ending. ![]() I don’t have the right words to prepare you for this comic. ![]()
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