"Wild Boars. The Employee of the Self," by Lisa Blumen: Nina Situations
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A reflection on beauty standards and their commodification. EDITIONS L'EMPLOYÉ DU MOI
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Review Winner of the 2024 SF Comics Award for “Astra Nova,” Lisa Blumen picks up her alcohol markers to wrap up this psychological thriller in candy box style ★★★★☆
With her eyes painted, her lips painted, her skin overhydrated... a fragmented being, that's how makeup influencer Nina MakeUp appears at first glance. Every day, the young woman anoints and preens herself in front of the camera to extol the virtues of a toner or mascara, with the ambition that her followers will find in it the means to find themselves beautiful. Her unease grows when she realizes the compromises this ultra-modern profession demands: becoming a billboard, putting her private life on display. Furthermore, isn't a woman who displays herself on social media, in fact, prey? Nina becomes the target, online, of masculinists and, in real life, of a stalker posted at the foot of her building. Eternally alone in her pink apartment, she is nevertheless never alone—both sides of the same coin represent danger.
Winner of the 2024 Science Fiction Comics Award for "Astra Nova," Lisa Blumen picks up her alcohol-based markers to wrap this psychological thriller in candy-box style. There's plenty of style in this reflection on standards of beauty and their commodification.
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