Book Review
Laser Printer II (2021)
by Tamara Shopsin
American author/illustrator has produced a little gem of low-stakes fiction, about a young woman working at an Apple repair shop in Manhattan during the decade or so when such stores thrived. These days it is common place to read reviews of graphic novels that are treated like novels instead of comic books, but this is the first novel that seems more like a graphic novel- the pages are rich with fetishization of the iconic Macintosh products of the 1980's. Laser Printer II is as much a story about the evolution of Apple itself- from a quirky, hobbyist friendly outsider to the behemoth of the Ipod and eventually, the Apple Stores that would forever render shops such as the one depicted in this book obsolete.
Laser Printer II is 224 pages long but it feels shorter, the characters seem sketched in pencil, and it is really the machines- Apple manufactured printers, that feel fully colored in.
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