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Handbook for Hot Witches: Dame Darcy's Illustrated Guide to Magic, Love, and Creativity
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About Handbook For Hot Witches: Dame Darcy's Illustrated
Product Description Combine a graphic novel with a dash of crafts, a sprinkle of feminist fairy tales, and a whole cauldron of spells―voilà!―Dame Darcy's Handbook for Hot Witches. This is the guide for girls who want cool things to do and great friends to do them with, who aren't afraid to be their different, awesome selves. It's a celebration of powerful, creative girls―the sort of girls who may have been called "witches" once, but who, as this book proclaims, are "hot," because of their talent and their uniqueness. With sections on banjo playing, beauty spells, palm reading, and much more, this fully illustrated handbook will send girls on their way to independence, creativity, and magic. From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-This "illustrated guide to magic, love, and creativity" harkens back to the New Age bookstore shelves. Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages. Overflowing with Dame Darcy's signature black-and-white illustrations, it provides a quiz for readers to determine their hot-witch type and then details the modern-day "hot witches"-enchantress, Bard, mystic, seer, Pagan, etc. Odd comic retellings of fairy tales are interspersed throughout, adding to the cacophony. This book will not be without its niche of dedicated fans who may be tired of seeing witches morphed and mainstreamed into glamorous high schoolers helping vampiric friends, but the visually and verbally crammed text will likely have a small audience.-Elaine Baran Black, Georgia Public Library Service, Atlantaα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Review “Part graphic novel, part New Age primer, with dashes of astrology and crafts and pinches of beauty hints, the book packs a lot into its 200 pages.” ―School Library Journal “Darcy's comics are aesthetic manifestos. . . . Darcy is a star.” ―The New York Times on Dame Darcy “I think she's exquisite, let's put it that way. I wish I knew her in high school.” ―Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on Dame Darcy “[Darcy] has created a childlike, otherworldly realm, a land that hovers in the twilight space between the whimsical and the macabre. Ghosts and goblins, foul-tempered stepmothers, lovesick mermaids and charmed forest are all rendered in Darcy's distinctive hand, loose and flowing lines reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey.” ―The Los Angeles Times on Meat Cake About the Author Dame Darcy currently resides in New York City and Savannah, Georgia. She is known worldwide as an illustrator, writer, fine artist, musician, filmmaker, animator, environmentalist, and Cabaret Mermaid. Her illustrated titles include The Illustrated Jane Eyre, and she has been publishing her comic book series, Meat Cake, for twenty years.
