Why read You and a Bike and a Road?

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A two-wheeled journey across the landscape of America, and through the heart and mind of an artist.

Eleanor Davis’s bike tour from Tucson, Arizona to Athens, Georgia is a quest of epic proportions ― not just geographically, which it surely is, but inwardly as well. While facing off formidable headwinds,…

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2 authors picked You and a Bike and a Road as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

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This book is Eleanor Davis’s gorgeous travel documentary of her 2016 cross-country bike tour. Her lines are so vivid and alive, and her day-by-day recounting of the details of her body, her bike, and the country changing around her is both simple and intricate. All of her work is amazing, but this one is definitely a standout.

From Sivan's list on The best graphic nonfiction that focuses on women.

Shannon Watters

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Eleanor Davis’s line is one of my favorites anywhere in comics. She gets so much movement and flow in the width and depth of her inkwork. That movement is at some of its finest here, chronicling her glorious, arduous bike ride from Arizona to Georgia.

You are arrested by her work immediately, rooting for her and the folks she encounters throughout the journey, all rendered with a nib’s organic caress, giving them and the entire book a rooted, organic, alive feel. The road laid out before you, shimmering with possibility.

From Shannon's list on The best comics to read when you wish you were sitting around a campfire.