Finding Molly by Justine Prado – Book Review

Fresh out of art school and creatively unfulfilled, Molly is stuck in the suburbs with her parents and their cat, Pishi.

When she is offered an opportunity to cat sit, she sees it as a way to get closer to her friends who live in the Los Angeles Arts District while fulfilling her dream of making a living as an artist.

Molly Sanchez-Talebi, is a young woman, an art grad. She lives with her parents and their pet cat. She has plenty of dreams for her future, including one day being a full-time artist.

After drawing a cat portrait, a woman notices her work and offers her a cat-related job. She wants her to cat sit for her whilst she is away for the weekend. Needing the money, Molly agrees.

But what do you do whilst looking after cats for someone else? Crazy cats at that. Yep, you write a comic-blog about them!

I’m a bit older than the target market for this YA comic, and I also haven’t read a comic in around 25 years.

I can however appreciate a good story when I read one, albeit, this one is told in frames rather than full page text. The plot is highly amusing, and I can see comic book fans being fully engaged the whole way through.

I can also appreciate good artwork, and the illustrations throughout are superb. They are bold, and clearly give this comic the wow factor! I especially love the facial expressions.

It didn’t take me long to read, and it certainly kept me entertained from the first page, to the last. Molly is a great girl with lots of character, and a big ambition, but the cats stole the show for me.

Justine Prado – is a Los Angeles-based feature and television screenwriter, playwright, and cat lady. She holds a BFA from the Academy of Art University and an MFA from UCLA. Justine has worked as a writer for many major studios, networks and indie production companies.

Before her Hollywood career, Justine was a theatre geek, an adequate musician, and a subversive political activist. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her cat, Thriller, who enjoys eating shoelaces.

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Jenn St-Onge – is a Canadian illustrator/comic artist who graduated from Seneca College’s Independent Illustration program in 2012 and has since worked with companies like IDW Publishing, Archie Comics, BOOM! Studios, and Valiant Entertainment.

She is the princess of coffee-loving cat ladies and currently lives just outside Toronto, Ontario, with her husband and their five kitties.

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