Who Will Make The Pancakes: Five Stories

Megan Kelso

Who Will Make The Pancakes: Five Stories
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Country
United States
Published
8 November 2022
Pages
200
ISBN
9781683966708

Who Will Make The Pancakes: Five Stories

Megan Kelso

Who Will Make the Pancakes collects five deeply social stories by the acclaimed cartoonist Megan Kelso, exploring the connective tissue that binds us together despite our individual, interior experience. These stories, created over the past 15 years - roughly contemporaneously with the author’s own journey as a mother- wrestle with the concept of motherhood and the way the experience informs and impacts concepts of identity, racism, class, love, and even abuse. The book opens with Watergate Sue, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine over six months in 2007. Spanning two generations of mothers/daughters, Eve’s obsession with Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal throughout 1973 heightens her self-doubt about whether she wants to raise more children (resonantly mirroring the anxiety many of us had while doom scrolling our way through the Trump administration). Some 30 years later, her daughter, Sue, is now grown and beginning her own family and attempting to reconcile her mother’s experience with her own.

Cats in Service is a contemporary fable about how a death in the family leads a young couple to adopt several cats who have been expertly trained to tend to their every need. The Egg Room profiles middle-aged Florence, caught between dreams of how her life might have unfolded and the shrunken reality. The Golden Lasso turns the focus to adolescence, using rock climbing as a set piece for a story about innocence lost, while Korin Voss chronicles a few months in the life of a single mother in the late 1940s.

Taken collectively, Who Will Make the Pancakes showcases Kelso’s unique voice in graphic fiction (one more in tune with writers such as Alice Munro, Sarah Waters, or Ann Patchett than most graphic novelists) and a stylistic command that tailors her approachable and warm cartooning style for each story’s needs.

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