Corrina is a copywriter for an advertising firm, five years
out of college, and hates her job. She dreams of being a novelist, and
shoplifts magazines for fun. I might as well go ahead and give the plot away;
she has absolutely no life whatsoever. Perhaps it’s because everyone around her
has an iPhone in their hands? Maybe it’s because she’s in a boring city? I
couldn’t tell what city it was, from the looks of it, it wasn’t New York. The
author is Canadian so it was probably Toronto. Would the protagonist have a better
time in New York?
The use of only two colors, pink and black, heightens the
sense of anonymity. It looks like there’s absolutely nothing going on, kind of
like Chris Ware’s Building Stories. The characters seem to exist inside a
machine, with absolutely nothing to amuse themselves. The ending is happy
without being sentimental or simply, but I would like to see a sequel. Corrina
toys with the idea of waiting tables to support her creative efforts, so that
would be a good premise for the next installment.
A bored copywriter makes for a boring story, but struggling
artist or writer always has an interesting one.
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