Braceface: The Comic Novel

While just announcing that the America's Pluto TV platform Rainbow Squad and six others channels were taking off since today at 11am, and that in the most unfortunate moment, the cult animated dramedy Braceface is been the last show that were playing in the Rainbow Squad outlet means a big deal to me, (In Canada, Kid Squad has playing it until the Holidays before the channel finally shutdown last weekend) where after years to wait and wait before the animated series bringing back to the airs in official linear Television or otherwise, is like turning back in 2015... where I started to discovered the whole body of the show for the first time, at least since its eventual cancellation in 2004, and then, forever missed by 2007!

But there's one place where it was rarely describe and that nevertheless serve purpose of the today's post: Seeing Sharon Spitz on a comic novel series. Don't believe me? Take a look by yourself:

This novel adaptation is the work of Véronique Grisseaux and Ted Bastien, and then together, have continuing the Charlotte's (It's Sharon in french if you ask) slice-of-life to what the original animated series has ended. You can see the Nelvana tag at the right bottom on the corner, which justify that it's an authorized adaptation and not so a mere fanfiction thing.

The sad drawback about it is it's a series that is solely released for French nations from the same book editor that released these countless Simpsons comics and their own spin-offs. Jungle Editions have a weird reputation to make made stories about strong-headed females characters that never looked different than the ones we're already know. Back in the day, I was enough surprising to see one of them in a local bookstore that don't longer exist nowadays. They only released four volumes. If it's due to weak reception or disappointing sales, who knows. It would be great to find it on Amazon for cheap but with the late layoffs there, better to not bother with the Jeff Bezos empire.

Despite that it was an afterthough, the artstyle is a little more Anime-esque than it was in the original cartoon. In a way, it help us to keep investing to the Sharon Spitz's issues about love, music, vegetarianism and her own ordeal with its metallic braces but it also collapsed that the mid-00s weren't that pretty in the BDs artform, where literally, one may assume that the comics, graphic novel and BDs editors and authors were concerned that "educated kids are so boring", and that was a thing that went fixed in the later years. 

Thankfully for us, the Braceface novel series never will surviving on an modern age where narratives became either, a drug for oldies, elites and Wokes, Saturday Morning TV outlets or a bland 30-minutes Infomercial, when authors have no longer choice to "plug" the whole thing in order to sells books copies. Like the way some Warner Bros. newer shorts were made in the 1990s just for sells the productions cels signed by Chuck Jones and others for the Warner Bros. Studio Store of old.

(For call insult to injury, isn't it appropriate that someone call the BDGest administrators that the main character's name is not Samantha? As if the heroine didn't have already a name!)