Sweet Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770463851)

Vibrant swatches of paint build resonant portraits of heartache, childhood memories, and loneliness

Sweet Time is an intimate rumination on love, empathy, and confidence. Singaporean cartoonist Weng Pixin delicately explores strained relationships with a kind of hopefulness while acknowledging their inevitable collapse. Her stories are like a series of snapshots in a photo album or the brightest highlights from an Instagram profile.

Gorgeous image follows gorgeous image in a delicate quest to find connection. A night out turns into a chance encounter that is at first ecstatic and then quickly descends into awkwardness. A round of "he loves me, he loves me not" becomes a way of reading every action taken by a distant love interest. A couple find themselves in an artificially beautiful landscape, but the relationship can't survive their difference of opinion on the illusion of its beauty. In Sweet Time, thick and bold strokes of color mingle with delicate lines. Weng combines colorful realism with a gentle wit and introspection, crafting infinitely relatable stories of everyday life and love now.

Author: Weng Pixin
ISBN-10: 1770463852
ISBN-13: 9781770463851
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 5.80h x 7.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2020
Booklist 07/01/2020 pg. 45
Library Journal 08/01/2020 pg. 54
Shelf Awareness 08/18/2020