There's an undercurrent of the bizarre in her pencils that's difficult to pin down, which perhaps highlights the not quite rightness of Bunjevac's unreliable narrator. There's a meticulous detail to Bunjevac's pencils that's staggering. Bezimena (2018, Ici Mme, Nantes 2019, Fantagraphics, Seattle), Nina’s third book, made the official selection at Angoulme International Comics Festival 2019, won Artemisia prize in the category of Best Drawing in France, and was awarded Best Book Jury Prize at 2019 Lucca Comics and Games in Lucca, Italy. The illustrations (please, let's not have a debate about whether it's comics, Bezimena's a comic) remind me of the intense focus and quality of Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein spot illustrations. Bunjevac expertly takes us through the delusions that exist within the mind of a predator. Bezimena, it turns out, earned the official Angoulême selection in 2019.īezimena is creepy and unsettling, which is no surprise, given the source material. She's known for her two previous books, Heartless in 2012 (a Doug Wright award winner), and Fatherland in 2014. Hlavn hrdina, Benny, je onm promnncem, jeho nutkav mylenky jej ji od dtstv. If you choose to read Bezimena, especially if you have a history with sexual violence, tread carefully.īezimena is my introduction to Bunjevac's work I've never read anything else by her. Vchozm bodem grafickho romnu Niny Bunjevac je mtus o Siproitovi, ve kterm bohyn Artemis promn mladka v enu za pokus o znsilnn. In some cases, there are explicit depictions of sex acts, which NPR describes as having dubious consent. Bunjevac formats the story in a manner where there's one page of dialogue (usually only one or two-word balloons) and then a massive illustration on the facing page. A wholly adult-only OGN that most closely resembles a David Lynch movie, Bezimena focuses its attention on the story of a sexual predator. Told through a noirish lens, Bezimena is the story of a man who develops a disturbing obsession with a former classmate, steadily losing his grasp on.

Bezimena by Nina Bunjevac