At a roadside diner, Raleigh finds a picture of a girl that looks uncannily like a younger version of her. In uncharacteristically subtle fashion, Bryan Lee O’Malley constantly hints that something magical is going on in the background Lost at Sea. Lost at Sea is about Raleigh, an eighteen year-old girl on a road trip from California to Canada with three other high school students she barely knows.Ĭredit: Bryan Lee O’Malley, Lost At Sea, Oni Press, page 136 So when they’re viewed in a linear progression, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels create a strikingly cohesive a metanarrative that can show us some pretty amazing things about what it means to grow up. Each individual story comments on the difficulties of growing up at a different stage of young adulthood, and incorporates a unique take on the supernatural to reinforce its themes. That’s right: Bryan Lee O’Malley wrote about older and older characters as his career went on.
Seconds, released in 2014, is about a twenty-nine-year-old chef trying to start a new restaurant. The Scott Pilgrim series, released from 2004 to 2010, is about a twenty-three-year-old slacker making music and looking for love in Toronto.
Lost at Sea, released in 2003, is about an eighteen-year-old high school student on a road trip across the United States.
The three stories are tonally and structurally very different, but more connections begin to emerge the closer you look. Credit: Bryan Lee O’Malley, Lost at Sea, Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, Oni Press Seconds, Ballentine Books
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