Yes, I'm blaming all the millennial hipsters for my inability to love this story. I think there came between us, me and this book, the gap separating my generation from the one that follows me. So I was expecting something totally different.

This story was OK and this review is a compilation of the feelings I had while and after I read the book and is not a critique on the merits of the art or literary style used to convey said story. I think I'm going to reread this tonight. Above all else, she is a true foodie, so she always allows panel space to highlight favorite dishes or must have snacks. She includes linear notes on footnotes, if that's even possible in comic form. I love Lulu's illustrations, and I just love the way she thinks. Along the way, she contemplates where her life is headed, is coping with a recent break-up and new love interest, and trying to figure out if she loves her career as a comic artist despite its meager compensation. In the style of French Milk, she documents a month long trip to Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, and Iceland. In An Age of License: A Travelogue, dear Lulu is at it again, and what she does best is capture her traveling adventures. I have everything she's written thus far, and I guess that makes me a bonafide fan. I feel like Knisley and I are on personal terms, so I'll just call her 'dear Lulu.' At this point, I think I would buy just about any graphic novels she publishes from here on out. They call it: L' Age License.as in license to experience, mess up, license to fail, license to do. 'The French have a saying for the time when you're young and experimenting with your lives and careers.

It's inspired me to want to be a bit more creative in journaling trips! I really loved this, and absolutely want to read more stuff by Lucy Knisley. The title is incredible important - 'the age of licence' is, at least the book explains it to be, the time in a persons life when they're a little bit lost and have the ability to go on aimless adventures and learn about their hopes and dreams and goals. We learn about the people in her life, her relationships, her work, and her thoughts (sometimes very insightful, sometimes very funny) on travel. She's honest with her experiences - shares what's fun and what wasn't - and is open with what is going on her life at the moment of the trip and how the trip effects the other aspects of her life, especially some epiphanies going on in her mind. The author of this 'travelogue' is an illustrator, and during a big trip to Europe she catalogued and journaled her trip through beautiful illustrations, doodles, typography, and captions. A BRILLIANT IDEA THAT WAS EXECUTED BRILLIANTLY.

An Age of License by Lucy Knisley