Graphic novel: 'Please God, find me a husband!'

'Please God, find me a husband!' A graphic novel about life, love and faith (and searching for a husband!) by Simone Lia.

Fr Stephen Wang writes in his blog Bridges and Tangents: I can't say I have read many graphic novels, but this is an extraordinary book. It tells the tale, as you would expect from the title, of Simone Lia's search for a husband, and her struggle to understand God's plan for her life. It's Cosmopolitan meets St John of the Cross via Snoopy and the Far Side. The cartoon-like illustrations are endearing, funny, and often beautiful. Her emotional honesty is sometimes heartbreaking. But you have the sense of listening in on the inner dialogue of a soul - one that is innocent, wounded, brave and slightly quirky - rather than intruding or being the recipient of a clunky disclosure.

There is a moment of grace and enlightenment near the end of the book (I'm not spoiling any plot) that is both profoundly moving and presents a spiritual insight that is worthy of the contemplative masters, and that I don't think could have been communicated so effectively in any other medium. It takes a lot for me to say that, as a cinema fanatic; but perhaps there is something in this graphic novel thing.

To read on see: http://bridgesandtangents.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/please-god-find-me-a-husband-a-graphic-novel-about-life-love-and-faith-and-searching-for-a-husband-by-simone-lia/