Undertow: A Graphic Novel

By Ellen Lindner

DANCING!! DRUGS!! DECEIT!!!

ALL AT CONEY ISLAND

Set amidst the chaos of a summer weekend at Coney Island, Undertow tells the story of Rhonda, a girl suddenly overwhelmed by events beyond her control. Her mother's alcoholism, her best friend's death...and now a social worker who's intent on making it all better. Only her brother seems to understand what she's going through, but even he doesn't think much of her plan to escape it all by finding a career.

A story of finding your way in life and deciding who you are, Undertow takes the reader on a tour of a side of the 1950's that didn't make it into the romance comics: heroin, sex, and hopelessness, with a dash of nightclub dancing and swimming after curfew.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190803002X
• ISBN13: 9781908030023
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Soaring Penguin Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Great draft that could have been made much better but still stands on its own

The story suffers because these days it's too hard to take West Side Story type gang scene seriously. West Side Story itself continues to be popular because the ridiculousness of the dancing while sing-talking fits right in with allows it to be however silly it wants to be. An annoying part of her art is that characters seem like they are posing for each frame with supra-appropriate facial expressions like you see with bad actors. -StrictlySequential (goodreads)