In SexCoven, a cult develops around an anonymous music file that surfaces on the web. “I try to be more observational about it, and think about its sensory aspects or people’s different connections to it,” she says from Toronto.Ī panel from The ClairFree System. Technology and social media are front and centre in most of the stories, but the Canadian writer and artist isn’t moralising. Jenny is unpredictable and wry, focusing on women struggling with societal expectations, both online and in reality. (Threatening to whom?)”Īs in many of Tamaki’s stories in her delicate new collection Boundless, 1. But as Jenny watches the mysterious mirror-Jenny’s life diverge from her own in tiny ways – growing her hair long, watching Top Gun – she grows increasingly obsessed with the life that could be hers wishing, all the same, that “she had followed through with her threats to quit Facebook. Like most internet phenomena, it is “all anyone could talk about for two weeks”, considered “playful at best, mischievous at worst”. At first, it looks like it is merely a duplicate of the familiar social network – until small changes begin to appear on everyone’s profiles.
Jenny, a “mirror Facebook” appears on the internet. I n one of Jillian Tamaki’s comic-book stories, entitled 1.
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