The big, densely plotted volume has all the virtues of “Spinning,” plus the scale, the sense of wonder, and the optimism intrinsic to what’s called space opera or science fantasy. “ On a Sunbeam” is the magnificent, sweeping, science-fictional answer. “Spinning” was also a coming-out story, and a school story, and what scholars call a Künstlerroman, the story of how a young person becomes an artist-although, like most Künstlerromanen, it left unresolved the question of what she’d make next. That book excelled in its tactful line work and use of white space it looked neither superhero-ish nor ugly-on-purpose nor nearly realist but utterly sympathetic, with vast cold rinks and faces whose expressions you could share. Tillie Walden is an almost shockingly young (born in 1996) comics creator who received wide attention last year for “ Spinning,” a beautiful, melancholy graphic memoir about her years as a pre-teen and then teen figure skater.
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