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Now that I am a grown woman I realize that one thing does not negate the other

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The Forest Danielle Burgos Now that I am aBy Thomas Ott. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 32 pages, B&W, 2022. The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black