The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo and Sophie Yanow

and Sophie Yanow

‘Lizzy Stewart is one of comics’ great observers of those seemingly smaller moments of human existence

A massive and moving achievement

René Laloux’s short film La Prisonnière (1988)

The Life of a Coat Filipe Melo and Sophie YanowBy Kadya Molodowsky & Batia Kolton. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 28 pages, Colour, 2019. This comic in childrens book format is about the whimsical lifespan of a coat, worn by each child in a family. When the father of a large family makes a beautiful winter coat, little does he know how much use it will get. Little Gedalia wears the coat with pride all year, but when it gets too tight for himhes a growing boy, after allits given to his