Starred review: “Wise’s expressive art conveys personality through body language while imbuing action sequences with energy and movement.
Readers will root for these girls as they navigate the waters of self-confidence, love, and cheerleading.” (Source: Booklist, July 2021 #1) Annie’s frustration and stomping, the cheerleading flips and tosses, and Bebe’s insecurity are communicated clearly in fluid lines. Wise’s art features a variety of wonderfully realistic and expressive teens and adults.
Starred review: “Much like Ngozi Ukazu’s Check, Please! (2018), which shares similar notes of sweetness and heart, Frasier’s story is more about relationships than sports. Both writer Crystal Frasier and artist Val Wise are transgender.Ģ022 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Comics - Nominee It depicts both supportive and transphobic behaviors from the transgender girl’s family and teammates. Through the rigors of squad training and amped-up social pressures (not to mention microaggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they’d lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them.Ĭheer Up focuses on a friendship-to-romance between two teenage girls, one of whom is transgender. Her former friend Bebe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life in order to maintain their support of her transition.
Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who’s under pressure to join the cheerleading squad to make friends and round out her college applications.
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