Wrinkles
Description
In this graphic novel that inspired the award-winning animated film (starring Martin Sheen and Matthew Modine), two men whimsically escape an assisted living home to avoid confinement.
Retired bank manager Emilio, suffering from Alzheimer’s, is taken to an assisted living home by his son. He befriends his roommate Miguel, an overconfident ladies’ man. Together, they employ clever tricks to keep the doctors from noticing Emilio’s ongoing deterioration — and keep him from being transferred to the dreaded confinement of the top floor of the facility. ("Better to die than to end up there." Their determination to stay active as individuals and maintain their dignity culminates in an adventurous escape.
Praise for Wrinkles
Roco's visual style is an appealing, effective amalgamation of cartoonishness and realism... distinguished by its gentle humor and sympathetic if ultimately unsparing compassion.
— Gordon Flagg - Booklist
This distressing yet humorous story offers an empathetic glimpse of the brave humanity of aging people and the challenges in caring for them.
— Martha Cornog - Library Journal
Wrinkles is... a really well done book, powerful, melancholic, bittersweet, heartbreaking, beautifully drawn.
— Richard Bruton - Forbidden Planet International
