Maybe it's ironically fascinating in that she doesn't really get along with people and shares herself with us, anyway. Reminds me of Adrian Tomine in some ways, in that This is a collection of work by Bell, different chapters about different aspects of her life. Reminds me of Adrian Tomine in some ways, in that he is an unlikeable character or creates them in his fictions, and yet I am somehow intrigued by him and these characters, anyway. There's honesty in that.
There are some interesting experimental memoir pieces like the one about Scum Manifesto where much of it seems to be made up. Or a kind of surreal exchange with her sidekick, Tony. He says, "When you're here it's like a ghost is passing through… You're only partially present. Well, because she somehow still manages to be intriguing; we want to like her, and part of that is her artwork, which manages to be just cute enough and inviting, visually.
She's honest about her alienation. Sometimes I really like it. I'll keep reading her. Jan 11, Lacey Louwagie rated it really liked it Shelves: Around the Year Reading Challenge Item 1: A Book You Meant to Read in Having picked this up in November with the intent to read it and return it quickly, I figured it counted as a book I meant to read in , as I had no intention of continuously renewing it, unread, until January -- but that is exactly what happened!
I have to walk past the graphic novel rack every time that I go to the library after work to get my report sent before 6 pm, so I keep ending up with these "impulse check-o Around the Year Reading Challenge Item 1: I have to walk past the graphic novel rack every time that I go to the library after work to get my report sent before 6 pm, so I keep ending up with these "impulse check-outs" from that department even though graphic novels aren't my favorite genre, nor does my library have that great a collection!
Still, I am beginning to learn that, as much as I love "traditional" memoirs, I may love "graphic" memoirs even more. I love to read published diaries, and in many ways that is what "The Voyeurs" is -- although there is not a clear "throughline" or overarching "plot" tying the many vignettes together, each of them has its own rising and falling tensions, along with a sense of universalism balanced with individuality and plenty of vulnerability.
I am not a cartoonist, but I related to many of Bell's struggles as an introvert who does most of her work within the confines of her own home, having also given into obsessive email checking, the need to totally "unplug" for a few days, resistance to leaving my home, and bouts of depression as she describes. This is my first time reading Bell, and unfortunately, it's the only collection by her my library carries. Still, I will keep my eyes peeled and gladly read more if the opportunity arises. Aug 14, Nick rated it really liked it Shelves: The Voyeurs is difficult to describe.
The title partly describes the life of the central character, supposedly based on Bell herself. If it is truly autobiographical, I'm amazed that Gabrielle Bell hasn't died of terminal moping, as she portrays herself as the most depressed and depressing person on the planet much of the time. The story is intriguing because she travels to all sorts of exciting places, interacts with amazing and creative people, and somehow comes out of it making the reader thin The Voyeurs is difficult to describe. The story is intriguing because she travels to all sorts of exciting places, interacts with amazing and creative people, and somehow comes out of it making the reader think that she should get her meds checked.
Bell is a self-educated artist who is really good at design and visuals, but she's also very good at self-deprecating writing. She comes across as an agoraphobic depressive for much of the book, but somehow manages to make that interesting, as if we're voyeurs ourselves, watching this wreck of an artist. Whether we're watching her eat her way through a San Diego ComicCon or ignore the French countryside, it's actually riveting. May 31, Mike rated it really liked it Shelves: Feb 14, Iago rated it liked it.
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Me encanta el dibujo de Gabrielle Bell y los colores que utiliza. Reflexiones sobre la vida, sobre sus novios, etc. De donde viene y hacia donde va.
Mejora hacia el final del libro. Oct 15, Raina rated it really liked it Shelves: I finally found a Gabrielle Bell book I really like! I don't know if it's the color, or the fact that I've heard of most of her boyfriends, or that she travels and name-drops, but I really enjoyed reading this volume. I laughed out loud several times and identified with her.
I really dug the first few entries, where she goes to a party on a roof and goes to Roosevelt Island.
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Her trips to France and Japan, inside scoop on ComicCon, and struggles with adapting a feminist monsterwork were al Hooray! Her trips to France and Japan, inside scoop on ComicCon, and struggles with adapting a feminist monsterwork were all fun to read too. Most of the pieces maybe all? She goes into her romantic entanglements, and I appreciated the structure of putting these in explicit chronological order. Honestly, it may have been Aaron Cometbus ' introduction that really made this gel for me. The whole very short intro is definitely worth reading, but the last line: It's true, Bell's work isn't as tell-all as many of the graphic novel creators I love.
But that's her art, really. Definitely worth the read, even if you haven't enjoyed her work before. Aug 27, Katie rated it really liked it. The Voyeurs is an obsessively-drawn, very personal graphic memoir, set up as a series of diary entries. Gabrielle Bell illustrates little snippets of her days, from the various comic-cons to a trip to France with boyfriend at the time Michel Gondry, to interactions with friends and family. She comes across as often depressed and neurotic, but the comic still feels light. The first comic shows Gabrielle and her friends on the roof on a building watching some neighbors having sex.
The rest of the The Voyeurs is an obsessively-drawn, very personal graphic memoir, set up as a series of diary entries. The rest of the book, the readers are the voyeurs, observing Gabrielle's life, warts and all. Feb 04, Stella rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is my first book comic by Gabrielle Bell and it won't be the last.
Can't wait for my next Amazon package to arrive with "Lucky". The book had no explicit theme but to show the real life, and oh, my I absolutely loved it, I could identify with most of it, I loved the fights she had with her boyfriend how real was that!
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Dec 02, Sarah Laing rated it it was amazing. I really loved this - Gabrielle Bell does the kind of diary comics that I do, only better.
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I follow her blog but she's curated this collection, and it has lots more power as a book. She picked a theme - voyeurism - and kept revisiting it. The observations, the dialogue, is always super-sharp, and I related to her feeling of being a voyeur in one's own life - of always watching and not necessarily fully participating.
Nov 29, Amy rated it it was amazing Shelves: I could read more pages of this. She makes drawing and writing look effortless. Nov 21, Hannah Garden rated it it was amazing. It is hard to read a perfect thing like this without caving in to envy and despair, but whatever, sometimes you just have to suffer in your awful desperate jealous cave. Dec 04, Mark Victor Young rated it really liked it Shelves: Your email address will not be published. In , TCJ collected anecdotes from various comics creators, excerpted here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.
Wordpress Hashcash needs javascript to work, but your browser has javascript disabled. Your comment will be queued in Akismet! Face Front, True Believers: Ben Passmore Bandy Designys: Voyeurism has high prevalence rates in most studied populations. Voyeurism was initially believed to only be present in a small portion of the population. Due to the prevalence of voyeurism in society, the people who engage in voyeuristic behaviours are diverse. However, there are some trends regarding who is likely to engage in voyeurism.
These statistics apply only to those who qualify as voyeurs under the definition of the DSM, and not the broader modern concept of voyeurism as discussed earlier in this article. Early research indicated that voyeurs were more mentally healthy than other groups with paraphilias. More recent research shows that, compared to the general population, voyeurs were moderately more likely to have psychological problems, use alcohol and drugs, and have higher sexual interest generally. Research shows that, like almost all paraphilias, voyeurism is more common in men than in women.
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There is very little research done on voyeurism in women, so very little is known on the subject. One of the few studies deals with a case study of a woman who also had schizophrenia. This limits the degree to which it can generalise to normal populations. Lovemap theory suggests that voyeurism exists because looking at naked others shifts from an ancillary sexual behaviour, to a primary sexual act. Voyeurism has also been linked with obsessive—compulsive disorder OCD. When treated by the same approach as OCD, voyeuristic behaviours significantly decrease.
Historically voyeurism has been treated in a variety of ways. Psychoanalytic , group psychotherapy and shock aversion approaches have all been attempted with limited success. This is based on the idea that countries with pornography censorship have high amounts of voyeurism. Voyeurism has also been successfully treated with a mix of anti-psychotics and antidepressants.
However the patient in this case study had a multitude of other mental health problems. Intense pharmaceutical treatment may not be required for most voyeurs. There has also been success in treating voyeurism through using treatment methods for obsessive compulsive disorder. There have been multiple instances of successful treatment of voyeurism through putting patients on fluoxetine and treating their voyeuristic behaviour as a compulsion.
Although small spy cameras had existed for decades, advances in miniaturisation and electronics since the s have greatly aided the ability to conceal miniature cameras , and the quality and affordability of tiny cameras often called "spy cameras" or subminiature cameras has greatly increased. Some consumer digital cameras are now so small that in previous decades they would have qualified as "spy cameras", and digital cameras of twenty megapixels or more are now being embedded in some mobile camera phones.
The vast majority of mobile phones in use are camera phones. Certain image capturing devices are capable of producing images through materials that are opaque to visible light, including clothing. These devices form images by using electromagnetic radiation outside the visible range.
Infrared and terahertz-wave cameras are capable of creating images through clothing, though these images differ from what would be created with visible light. Candaulism is a sexual practice or fantasy in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their voyeuristic pleasure. The term may also be applied to the practice of undressing or otherwise exposing a female partner to others, or urging or forcing her to engage in sexual relations with a third person, such as during a swinging activity.
Similarly, the term may also be applied to the posting of personal images of a female partner on the internet or urging or forcing her to wear clothing which reveals her physical attractiveness to others, such as by wearing very brief clothing, such as a microskirt, tight-fitting or see-through clothing or a low-cut top.
Candaulism can be viewed as both voyeuristic and exhibitionist. Non-consensual voyeurism is considered to be a form of sexual abuse. The United States FBI assert that some individuals who engage in "nuisance" offences such as voyeurism may also have a propensity for violence based on behaviours of serious sex offenders. Voyeurism is not a crime at common law. In common law countries it is only a crime if made so by legislation. In Canada , for example, voyeurism was not a crime when the case Frey v. In that case, in , the Supreme Court of Canada held that courts could not criminalise voyeurism by classifying it as a breach of the peace and that Parliament would have to specifically outlaw it.
On November 1, , this was done when section was added to the Canadian Criminal Code , declaring voyeurism to be a sexual offence. In some countries voyeurism is considered to be a sex crime. In the United Kingdom , for example, non-consensual voyeurism became a criminal offence on May 1,