Image Comics will release Memories of Giselle, a hard-hitting coming-of-age graphic novel by Italian cartoonist Katia Vecchio (Silver Vessels, Painted). Centered around childhood abuse and trauma, it centers around Giselle, a young girl haunted by repressed memories of her grandmother.
The book follows her and her brother as they “move through the fragile terrain of a childhood marked by hidden abuse, silence, and loss. Giselle is pursued by the memory of her late grandmother and by a single, recurring image — an empty boat — an emblem of the truth she has spent years repressing. As adolescence draws her into the bewildering realms of desire, vulnerability, and trust, the fractured pieces of her past begin to align, revealing a story long buried and the shadow it has cast over her and her brother’s present-day lives.”
The book marks Vecchio’s first at Image, and her first writing credit. “Memories of Giselle is the story I needed to tell in order to give shape to experiences that often remain unspoken,” she says. “My hope is that readers will find, in Giselle’s journey, the courage to look at their own pain with compassion, and to understand that acceptance begins with acknowledging what we’ve had to carry.”
Memories of Giselle will arrive in comics shops on June 17, and bookstores on July 14.
