Digitally Speaking...25 "The Chairs' Hiatus"

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The Chairs' Hiatus 

From 2013.

This is an excellent little graphic novel about being part of something, and what it's like to then become detached from that thing.

Matthew Bogart's simple approach is to follow the course of the reunion between two women who used to be in a rock band together.  The lead character walked away and has been trying to distance herself from her old life.  She doesn't even know what to make of reminders, of fans who recognize her.  This is the part where she's so far removed from what she used to have, she's become completely isolated, and prefers that isolation.

Then her bandmate comes back and forces a reunion, which backfires spectacularly, and as a result, we get to learn exactly what happened.  And it's not just a story about being in a band and touring, but can be applied to other circumstances, and as such has a somewhat powerful therapeutic potential to it.  How relationships end, and how they can begin again, is something Bogart has expressed in a profound way.

This is a thing of beauty.

via Matthew Bogart