I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You

by Yumi Sakugawa

Overview

YALSA Quick Pick Award Winner

Express your love for your friends with this sweet, loving book that celebrates the joy of true friendship.

I have a confession to make.
I think I am in friend-love with you.

What’s friend-love? It’s that super-awesome bond you share with someone who makes you happy every time you text each other, or meet up for an epic outing. It’s not love-love. You don’t want to swap saliva; you want to swap favorite books. But it’s just as intense and just as amazing.

And it’s this search for that connection that comic-book artist Yumi Sakugawa captures in I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You. It’s perfect if you've ever fallen in friend-love and want to show that person how much you love them...in a platonic way, of course.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440573026
Publisher:	Adams Media
Publication date:	12/06/2013
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	588,901
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 6.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Yumi Sakugawa is an Ignatz Awards nominated comic book artist and the author of I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You and Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe. Her comics have also appeared in Bitch, The Best American NonRequired Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles. Visit her online at YumiSakugawa.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Look around. You won't find anything sweeter than this lonely little book anywhere in your immediate vicinity. Unless for some reason there's, like, a bunny knitting a scarf for a puppy. That might be sweeter. Aside from that, this book is definitely your best bet." —Avery Monsen, coauthor of K is for Knifeball and All My Friends Are Dead

"This is one of my favorite comics ever, a sweet ode to platonic love that will echo through the ages." —MariNaomi, author of Kiss & Tell

"Funny and beautifully drawn, I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You is the bittersweet tale of friendships in the age of social media in which many can relate." —Esther Pearl Watson, author of Unlovable

"The warmth of Yumi's soft brushstrokes and vulnerability of her words make me feel less alone in this weird world. I think I am in book-love." —Lisa Hanawalt, author of My Dirty Dumb Eyes

"Yumi Sakugawa's small, sweet hardcover I Think I am in Friend-Love With You (Adams Media) feels so necessary. Sakugawa's one-eyed, vaguely socklike protagonist fantasizes a future of book-swapping, Tumblr post–reblogging, coffee-sipping platonic love, but reveals the most simple of needs in the book's simple black-and-white illustrations." - Bitch Magazine

"I Think I am In Friend Love With You...chronicles a bashful cyclops with a good old fashioned friend crush. Sakaguwa's comics, while being hilarious, are imbued with a quiet magic that somehow makes a glowing computer screen as ripe with beauty and mystery as a night sky full of twinkling stars." - Huffington Post Arts

The comic...expresses all the delightful, little things we hope our best...pals will do for us.... [Yumi's] work has an eerie, wondrous quality to it, blipped with panels that will make your heart soar and dip and soar again. Themes of space and love pull readers into a pensive world of fantastical creatures." - NPR's Code Switch

"In this cute little comic book, Yumi Sakugawa calls attention to how wonderful and fulfilling friendships can be...a fun and respectful look at platonic love." - Rookie Magazine

"It's gorgeous and poignant, and the art is unique. I adore it." - HelloGiggles

"Wonderfully touching...comic book artist Yumi Sakugawa has figured out the modern logistics of 21st platonic romance. In addition to her many wise words, Sakugawa's irresistible, imaginative, charming illustrations add layered examples of how to be a giving, deserving friend.... All those instant social media connections aside, nothing replaces face-to-face, livetime, friend-love-ly sessions of sharing and caring." —BookDragon, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center blog

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