100 Crushes
Book - 2014
100 Crushes compiles five years of queer comics by Elisha Lim, including excerpts from Sissy, The Illustrated Gentleman, Queer Child in the Eighties, and their cult series 100 Butches, as well as new work. It's an absorbing documentary that travels through Toronto, Berlin, Singapore, and beyond in the form of interviews, memoirs, and gossip from an international queer vanguard.
Publisher:
[Toronto] :, Koyama Press,, 2014.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781927668061
1927668069
1927668069
Branch Call Number:
741.5971 LI
Characteristics:
92 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Alternative Title:
One hundred crushes
Hundred crushes
Hundred crushes


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Do you enjoy international writing? Illustrated narratives? Slender volumes that fit as easily into your hand as into your attaché, so that you can carry them everywhere? If so, Katrin Abel, Reference Librarian at the Central Library, suggests you check out 100 Crushes by Elisa Lim and immerse... Read More »
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Add a CommentButches, sissies, and other gender-fluid folk: Canadian artist Elisha Lim showers love on them all. Queer people of colour are individually celebrated and given voice in single-panel illustrated essays. Simple outline sketch portraits, with added rich colours, are accompanied by hand-lettered text and surrounded with hand-drawn decorative frames.