Juliana Hyrri’s first book, The Nightingale That Never Sang, was published in 2022 & is available online and in bookstores. Here are some reviews & praise for it…
“A miraculous achievement, one of the most impressive works of comic art of the year.”
“The Nightingale has strength and sensitivity, its sound echoes long-hidden secrets and shame of an unidentified nature. The best debut in years.”
“Juliana Hyrri’s debut work looks at the world through the eyes of a child and an adult at the same time. The end result is an exceptionally-close blend of innocent beauty and miraculous cruelty. The narrative, which plays with the contradiction between the image and the text, opens the path to the fuzzy logic of childhood for even the middle-aged reader.”
“Gentle, beautiful, and at times chilling, Juliana Hyrri conjures childhood with all its complications.”
“There is poetry and magic and weird ambiance in her work.”
“Juliana’s fearless, brave comics linger like a lump in one’s throat; they are lovingly textured, assuredly drawn meditations on all the joy, anguish, mystery, confusion, and abject horror of childhood.”
“Employing ambiguity and narrative gaps, these stories powerfully evoke the voicelessness of childhood.”
“Hyrri’s raw and childlike drawing style is evocative. Pass this along to adventurous readers who like the unusual.”
“To anyone who enjoy Vähämäki or that European pencil style, or a brave book about childhood, don’t let this one pass by you.”