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<br> A hymn to love. -- Le Figaro <br><br> A sensitively told narrative. -- Tetu Magazine <br>

Julie Maroh, who was just 19 when she started the comic, manages to convey the excitement, terror, and obsession of young love-and to show how wildly teenagers swing from one extreme emotion to the next ... Ultimately, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a sad story about loss and heartbreak, but while Emma and Clementine's love lasts, it's exhilarating and sustaining. -Slate.com A beautiful, moving graphic novel. -Wall Street Journal Delicate linework conveys wordless longing in this graphic novel about a lesbian relationship. New York Times Book Review(Editor's Choice) Blue Is the Warmest Color captures the entire life of a relationship in affecting and honest style. -Comics Worth Reading A tragic yet beautifully wrought graphic novel. -Salon.com Love is a beautiful punishment in Maroh's paean to confusion, passion, and discovery ... An elegantly impassioned love story. -Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) A lovely and wholehearted coming-out story ... the illustrations are infused with genuine, raw feeling. Wide-eyed Clementine wears every emotion on her sleeve, and teens will understand her journey perfectly. -Kirkus Reviews The electric emotions of falling in love and the difficult process of self-acceptance will resonate with all readers ... Maroh's use of color is deliberate enough to be eye-catching in a world of grey tones, with Emma's bright blue hair capturing Clementine's imagination, but is used sparingly enough that it supports and blends naturally with the story. -Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW) It's not just the French who have a better handle on sexy material than Americans -- Canadians do, too ... Who's publishing it? Not an American publishing house but by Arsenal Pulp Press, a Canadian independent. -Los Angeles Times A deeply compelling story ... Maroh displays tremendous insight into the highs and lows of a young girl's journey of self-discovery as she moves from adolesc

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Julie Maroh is an author and illustrator originally from northern France. She studied comic art at the Institute Saint-Luc in Brussels and lithography and engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, where she still lives. After self-publishing three comics collections, her French-language graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude was published by Glénat in 2010; it won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's largest.

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