Rude Girl

Birgit Weyhe develops a rhythm of empathy in her comic. She tells the story of Crystal and her immigrant family like a rap. Six pictures per page, that’s the beat.”

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“Full of violence, pain, suffering and rebellion and a long way from what you’d expect of an academic career.”

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“Alongside the stark visual force that Rude Girl develops, what marks it out is its montage construction: in a second narrative layer, Weyhe presents the US professor Priscilla Layne with sections of her own drawn biography. The result is a productive and extremely open dialogue between two cooperating narrators: on cultural appropriation, race and gender. An essential contribution to our current identity debates.