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Factory Summers brings the subtle colour of banal summer jobs towards the promise of the world beyond them.
Terrible summer jobs are a rite of passage for most people. Picking strawberries in the broiling sun, whiling away listless retail hours in a bleak corner of a mall or serving ice cream to whiny kids and their strung-out parents. We’ve all been there.
Guy Delisle’s graphic novel-cum-memoir
Factory Summers has all the pathos, boredom, confusion and grim camaraderie that summer employment entails, crisply rendered in a limited palette of Payne’s grey, mustard yellow, black and white.
At the tender age of 16, Delisle started work at a pulp and paper mill in Quebec City. Built in 1927 and sporting the ornate deco-influenced style of the times, the mill supplied paper to newspaper giants like the New York Times. Since the place opened its doors, its massive rollers and lifts have been attended and stroked along by an army of men whose job it is to keep the machi
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