Graphic Novel Review: Giantess: The story of the girl who traveled the world in search of freedom by JC Deveney and Nuria Tamarit

Posted on February 27, 2025 at 6:44 am by Gene Ambaum

Giantess: The story of the girl who traveled the world in search of freedom by JC Deveney (script) and Nuria Tamarit (art). Translation by Dan Christensen. Magnetic Press, 2022. 9781951719616. 202pp.

All of Nuria Tamarit’s art is so beautiful her comics deserve to be published as oversized hardcovers, as this one was. Giantess is a bit more of a fairytale than Tamarit’s Daughters of Snow and Cinders, but it has the same amazing shelf appeal.

In the first pages, a woodcutter finds a giant, red-headed baby girl in the woods. His wife names her Celeste and she’s immediately welcomed into their family where she has six older brothers. After her brothers have all left to go into the world, her parents try to keep Celeste safe at home. But one day she meets a wandering peddler on his way to a great fair in a town he says is famous for a couple of giants. He talks her into accompanying him. Things do not go well there, but this leads Celeste to other adventures involving a noble knight who falls for her, a war, an inquisition, a witch, an amazing library, a troup of performers, and more.

This is a wonderful graphic novel about being a (giant/powerful) woman, and I know my wife and daughter will love it as much as I did.