Melody av Sylvie Rancourt

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<p><b>"Charming, innocent and empathetic... </b><b>Rancourt passes the reader a gift: the ability to experience and see a venal adult life through the forgiving, blameless and easily-wounded eyes of a child."</b><b>-Chris Ware, from his introduction</b><br><b></b><br><b></b>In 1980, Sylvie Rancourt and her boyfriend moved to Montreal from rural Northern Quebec. With limited formal education or training, they had a hard time finding employment, so Rancourt began dancing in strip clubs. These experiences formed the backbone of the first Canadian autobiographical comic book, <i>Melody</i>, which Rancourt wrote, drew, and distributed, starting in 1985. Later, she collaborated with the artist Jacques Boivin, who translated and drew a new series of <i>Melody</i> comics for the American market-the comics were an instant cult classic.<br> Until now, the Rancourt drawn-and-written comics have never been published in English. These stories are compelling without ever being voyeuristic or self-pi