The Con Artists: Luke Healey

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It is as if he knows deep in his heart that this is not his forte (he ducks out of the Edinburgh Comedy Festival on no good excuse), but he continues to slog away at his craft before strangers, a ritual of half-hearted immolation.

Then again, even on a first reading, it’s a stand-out: so funny and melancholy, so knowing and true. As Frank moves in with Giorgio to help him recover, he begins to suspect that the perfect life Giorgio has been sharing online may be nothing more than a web of lies and scams. Luke Healy’s playful, hilarious third graphic novel uses crisp lines and physical comedy to portray an uneasy friendship between two young men on the cusp of adulting. Luke Healy's playful, hilarious third graphic novel uses crisp lines and physical comedy to portray an uneasy friendship between two young men on the cusp of adulting.We wondered whether given Frank’s considerable anxieties of Giorgio’s state of mind and living arrangements Giorgio might have once been an object of Frank’s affections, but there is no other suggestion of this within the comic. The simple art style really helps to ground what could easily otherwise become a pretty heavy story.

Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. The book observes how much resentment builds between them, in their differing attitudes to purpose, privilege and self-presentation. This was an interesting concept and the simple art style was nice, but it just didn’t quite do it for me. I greatly disliked the character of Giorgio and wished there was more closure for the reader on their relationship.I do understand that it's supposed to be an exploration of mental illness and toxic friendships, and that it doesn't make sense in real life, but narrative-wise, it felt kind of. com/books/2022/may/23/the-con-artists-by-luke-healy-review-a-beautifully-observed-masterpiece and Drawn and Quarterly https://drawnandquarterly. It's a metafiction muddle of fiction and autobiography, friendship and love, anxiety and paranoia, trust and deception. Healy is one of those very noticing artists, and the great pleasure of his deeply satisfying fourth book, which is about an old friendship that will shortly curdle, lies in small things: little details you may not notice the first time around; ambiguities that nag away at you.