The Con Artists: Luke Healey

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The story is about Frank, who is trying (and failing) to make it as a stand-up comedian, a friend of Giorgio, who early on gets hit by a bus and needs support. The book observes how much resentment builds between them, in their differing attitudes to purpose, privilege and self-presentation. Snippets from Frank’s middling stand-up routines are punctuated by the subtle farce of Healy’s mise-en-scène and the lively, at times scathingly pointed, banter of old friends. I might as well come come straight to the point: The Con Artists by Luke Healy is my favourite graphic novel of the year so far, and to be honest, it might just be among my favourite comics ever. My favourite graphic novel of the year so far, and to be honest, it might just be among my favourite comics ever .

Finding himself unable to disentangle himself from his friend's complicated life, has Frank become Giorgio's unwitting accomplice? It’s almost sinister, the way he insists that Frank washes his hair or cuts up his dinner – and there’s something else, too. It wants to be twisty, but its just a typical take on the stick in the mud being yanked out and waved about by a person with mysterious motives, dubious schemes, and/or mental health issues. The central question that animates ‘The Con Artists’ is: what does it mean to watch someone struggle? Luke Healy’s playful, hilarious third graphic novel uses crisp lines and physical comedy to portray an uneasy friendship between two young men on the cusp of adulting.I enjoyed this book and would recommend it, but I did want a little more happening on a visual and emotionally expressive level.

A mordantly funny cautionary tale, and an incisive look at the boundaries of self-presentation and self-preservation. com/books/2022/may/23/the-con-artists-by-luke-healy-review-a-beautifully-observed-masterpiece and Drawn and Quarterly https://drawnandquarterly. That part was a little confusing because a lot of this graphic novel is Frankie talking about his mental illness. And ultimately, there is something to be said about the juxtaposition of the (more blatant) ways others deceive us and the (more subtle) ways we deceive ourselves.

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Healy is one of those very noticing artists, and the great pleasure of his deeply satisfying fourth book, which is about an old friendship that will shortly curdle, lies in small things: little details you may not notice the first time around; ambiguities that nag away at you. It is as if he knows deep in his heart that this is not his forte (he ducks out of the Edinburgh Comedy Festival on no good excuse), but he continues to slog away at his craft before strangers, a ritual of half-hearted immolation. It’s worried Frank, not Giorgio, who asks this question, but almost immediately he begins to regret the offer.

I think this was a really great portrayal of mental illness, and hard or toxic relationships, but that’s about it. Pretty brutal Goodreads average here for what I deem well done comics, sort of minimal, with barely tolerable main characters who are essentially conning each other in different ways. But the longer Frank is around Giorgio, the more cracks in the facade start to show - excessive spending, excessive drinking, obvious lies - which eventually leads Frank to discover some fairly serious criminal behavior going on.

A Guardian Best Book of 2022 —'A beautifully observed masterpiece… one of my favourite graphic novels I’ve ever read. Frank and Giorgio, the two men at the heart of it, are brilliant, vivid creations, and the passive-aggressive scratchiness between them is so beautifully observed. The Con Artists is a stylish character study that asks the question of who fools who once everyone is off-camera.Then again, even on a first reading, it’s a stand-out: so funny and melancholy, so knowing and true. Healy’s bittersweet portrayal of a troubled friendship is full of finely observed detail and deadpan humour, but it’s also a deeply felt exploration of happiness, trust and the lies we tell our friends and ourselves. A mordantly funny cautionary tale, and an incisive look at the boundaries of self-presentation and self-preservation.