We follow her story over the years one that is endlessly punctuated with the punishing schedule of early morning ice skating practice, school, and then more post-school sessions on the rink. We watch as Walden settles into a life of new environments, skating techniques and friendships. In her Eisner Award-winning Spinning Walden takes a more direct approach to her autobio practice, detailing her childhood years as a competitive skater in a memoir that explores themes of identity, family, coming out and those first formative steps to adulthood with a subtle but deeply affecting poignancy.īeginning as a young Tillie and her family are on the brink of a life-changing move to Texas, Spinning creates a sense of displacement from the outset. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she'd outgrown her passion-and she finally needed to find her own voice.From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from imaginative visual metaphor to the use of on-page avatars to embody her own experiences. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family.
She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden's life. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age.
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