![]() Wicks' style, like that of many small press artists, is like an adult version of Charles Schulz's Peanuts. ![]() Alternating between fictional storytelling and real life journal entries and using font to differentiate the two, Ottaviani captures the women's voices. Ottaviani focuses on the story on how each woman truly came alive in the wild. Goodall, blazing the trail and finding success, becomes the face of primate research, while Fossey slowly allows her passion to fight poachers to contract into anger and frustration. Galdikas gets the least attention, really serving to show the continuing legacy of Goodall and Fossey, two sides of the same coin. It was Goodall who first introduced Fossey, renowned for her anti-poaching advocacy, to Galdikas, researcher and rainforest conservationist. It's fitting, as it was her research that opened up the world of chimpanzees to the rest of the world. Goodall, the most prolific, serves as the backbone of the story. ![]() Primates, a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and drawn by Maris Wicks, tells the story of three icons in the field of primate studies: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas. The connection between Tarzan and Jane Goodall never occurred to me until of Primates, when a young Goodall daydreams of swinging on vines, jealous of Tarzan's other Jane. ![]()
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