Hey Princess eBook Mats Jonsson
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Hey Princess is a story of moving to the big city, and being young, insecure and desperate to be as hip as everyone else. When first published in Sweden, the book received praise among both critics and readers for its incisive and entertaining account of indie pop-listening young people in the mid-1990s. Hey Princess takes its place in the proud tradition of self-deprecating, confessional, sex-obsessed and guilt-ridden autobiographical comics, but stakes out a unique identity by virtue of its Nordic setting and biting social criticism.
Hey Princess eBook Mats Jonsson
As a person that had grown through the britpop phenomenon in his formative years as a teenager, living in a small semi-rural town, I felt that Mats Jonsson's story, Hey Princess, mirrored my experience... from a continent away. I enjoyed it immensely -- I can see how others who aren't interested in the genre might be turned off or find it hard to relate to, but for me, it hit me at the core.Product details
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Hey Princess eBook Mats Jonsson Reviews
"Hey Princess" is drawn in a crude, zine like, drawing style. And is very much like the slice-of-life autobiography comics of the 90's. Which is when this book happens, and when most of it was drawn. But it takes place in Sweden.
The book is more of a collection of short stories, that's sum is bigger then it's parts, then a straight up graphic novel. It chronicles Mats life as he moves to Stockholm in his 20's to find himself, love, work, and music. But mostly love... or more to the point, sex. Mats exposes some of the most embarrassing moments of his life, which makes what could easily be a sex journal, into something heartfelt.
People who enjoy the works of Jeffery Brown, Dan Clowes, or any other autobiography comic creator will enjoy this book as well.
I am always attracted to autobiographical graphic novels, and when I saw Hey Princess by Mats Jonsson I had to pick it up. Through confessional drawings and storytelling Jonsson relates his experiences as a student in Sweden in his early 20's. He covers school, sex, dating, parents, music festivals, and the entire youth "scene" in Sweden during the mid to late 1990's.
Hey Princess has the feel of a diary, and it holds little back. Jonsson freely shares his self doubts, sexual problems, girlfriend problems, business successes, terrible apartments, parental meddling, money problems, style issues, and much more. The book kept me interested and reading for the entire length of its 479 pages, although the story is fairly disjointed and hard to follow at times. Instead of one coherent whole, the book feels as if it were pieced together from many unrelated short works with only a slender "coming of age" thread to hold the whole thing together.
Jonsson's characters come across as fun and interesting, if a bit shallow, and Hey Princess (the title of a popular Swedish Pop song) is a fairly breezy read. My main problem with this book is that it doesn't seem very substantial. The main character and his friends do not seem to get much deeper emotionally or learn much as they move from one relationship to another as the book goes along. The characters are young and are still learning who they are, much like Mats Jonsson as an artist and a storyteller. I look forward to reading his work in the future with the hope that he continues to flesh out his stories and his art. Honest autobiographies in the world of graphic novels are rare, and the voice of Mats Jonsson is a welcome addition.
If you are interested in autobiographical graphic novels, you might also try the works of Jeffrey Brown ("Clumsy," "Unlikely," "Undeleted Scenes"), Craig Thompson ("Blankets"), and James Kochalka "American Elf").
Just as there are different styles in writing autobiographies, there are different styles in presenting them in a comic book. Swedish comic book writer and illustrator Mats Jonsson records several years in his twenties with a self-deprecating style and purposefully crude drawings.
Most of the story, which does not have a central plot, revolves around Mats's love life. No, that's not quite right. Most of the story revolves around Mats's lack-of-love life. Oh, he gets plenty of action from women, but everything seems to end either in disappointment or outright heartbreak. Every time he really falls for a woman, something has to go wrong.
Like Anna, the first woman we're introduced to. She already has a boyfriend, but...one thing leads to another, and she changes her mind on whether she wants to be with the boyfriend, or Mats, or...long story short, they do end up being a couple, and then she dumps him.
There's also Elsa. Mats is interested in her, even though he's also tempted by Cilla, and there's some irony in this considering how hurt he was by Anna balancing two potential lovers. Elsa moves to the UK for college, and that spells the beginning of the end.
Another relationship that stands out is the one with Ã…se, an artistic and deeply depressed woman. Mats wants to break it off, but is terrified she might hurt herself in response.
Some of Hey Princess is very funny, but more often it's pathetic. I don't mean pathetic as in the story is pathetic; I mean that time and again Mats shows pretty pathetic things happening in his life. Some of it is totally out of his hands, and some of it he brings on himself. In this sense, it's an honest portrayal. Oftentimes in autobiographies, writers want to only show certain sides of themselves, but Mats repeatedly does not show himself in the best light. He's sensitive, clueless, desperate, and many other things that everyone can be at one time or another, but most of us don't want to admit to.
The photograph on the cover might throw readers off, making them think it's not really a graphic novel. But the only photograph that exists is the one on the cover; everything inside is hand drawn in black and white. The art is very stylized in a cartoony sort of way, showing that, yet again, Jonsson has his own way of making comics.
-- Danica Davidson
As a person that had grown through the britpop phenomenon in his formative years as a teenager, living in a small semi-rural town, I felt that Mats Jonsson's story, Hey Princess, mirrored my experience... from a continent away. I enjoyed it immensely -- I can see how others who aren't interested in the genre might be turned off or find it hard to relate to, but for me, it hit me at the core.
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