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‘Tomboy’ is less about magical girls and more about “divine intervention”

Tomboy #1-4 Written and drawn by Mia Goodwin Published by Action Lab Comics/Danger Zone The magical girl genre has proliferated in comics and animation a lot as of late as the generation that grew up with those shows has started getting into the industry. It has lead to a lot of interesting twists on the …

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‘Tomboy’ #1 is Madoka Magica Meets the Punisher

Tomboy #1 successfully combines the Magical Girl and vigilante genres through Mia Goodwin’s art with manga-style figures to go with the grisly images of dead bodies and spattered gore and mix of bright and cold colors depending on the mood of the scene. Goodwin also builds the characters of Addison, her dad and granddad before unleashing hell with not one, but two murders of people close to them. With her authentic handling of the grieving process and the effects of violence, Mia Goodwin shows that there is room for earned darkness in Magical Girl stories in Tomboy #1.

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Inside Out 2012: ‘Mosquita Y Mari’ is an essay on young love that unquestionably makes the grade

Mosquita Y Mari Written and directed by Aurora Guerrero USA, 2011 What can you say about teenagers? Ask a parent and they’ll likely say they haven’t a clue. Ask a teenager and they’ll likely say the same. Understanding them is a dissertation of its own and very few filmmakers have ever shown an adequate propensity …

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‘Tomboy’ mines difficult territory with remarkable sensitivity

Tomboy Written by Céline Sciamma Directed by Céline Sciamma France, 2011 Cannily appearing to de-politicize a thorny issue while actually keeping the ever-present conflicts intact, Céline Sciamma’s sophomore feature Tomboy sensibly and sensitively tackles transphobia and the rigidity of social constructs of sexuality through a carefully observed portrait of childhood awkwardness, suggesting that our greatest …

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Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: ‘Tomboy’ mines difficult territory with remarkable sensitivity

Tomboy Written by Céline Sciamma Directed by Céline Sciamma France, 2011 Cannily appearing to de-politicize a thorny issue while actually keeping the ever-present conflicts intact, Céline Sciamma’s sophomore feature Tomboy sensibly and sensitively tackles transphobia and the rigidity of social constructs of sexuality through a carefully observed portrait of childhood awkwardness, suggesting that our greatest …

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‘Tomboy’ – Building a compelling drama around what is described as “the story of a lie”

Tomboy Written and directed by Céline Sciamma 2011, France Gwyneth Paltrow sported a fake moustache in Shakespeare in Love and Hilary Swank stuffed a sock down her jeans for Boys Don’t Cry. For Laure, the young heroine of Tomboy, it’s a tub of Play-Doh that helps prolong her dream of being one of the boys …

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