From the dreary colors of ordinary life, its easy to see what an escape Glass Town must have been. Bright, full, almost garish colors fill the Brontë’s imaginary world. In comparison, the world of Glass Town is vibrant. The one where the Bronte siblings, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell, live a life sequestered from the rest of the world trapped like “potatoes in a dark cellar.” This world, reality, is drawn by Greenburg in washed out pinks and blue greys. In the same way, while the entire book feels like it is an artifact from the time the Brontë’s were alive, Greenburg is able to create two distinct worlds in this setting. The art makes the book feel like it could have come from the same, early 19th century that it is set in. The font used is almost script like, giving the words the feeling that they could have been handwritten by the actual Brontës. Even the lettering on the book contributes to this feeling. This physicality, the scratchiness of each line drawn, gives “Glass Town” a great sense of setting. There is an extremely physical feeling to Isabelle Greenburg’s art in “Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës.” Every line, every color feels like it was done with traditional artistic implements. Through a combination of quotes from the stories originally penned by the Brontës, biographical information about them, and Greenberg’s vivid comic book illustrations, readers will find themselves enraptured by this fascinating imaginary world. Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak. This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës’ escape from the realities of their lives. children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town. It is in response to this loss that the four remaining Bront. The story begins in 1825, with the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest siblings. children-Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne.

Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Bront. Written and Illustrated by Isabelle GreenburgĪ graphic novel about the Brontë siblings, and the strange and marvelous imaginary worlds they invented during their childhood

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