​"I think Rachel Ang’s Dream Diary is wonderful, but then i got to Swimsuit and found it even more accomplished. The art in Swimsuit may not be physically realistic, but we can see from Happy Valley and Dream Diary that this is not because Rachel is unable to draw in the style. She’s choosing not to. What i’d ask everyone to consider instead is the *emotional* realism she is achieving. Look what she’s doing with her linework. From just the tilt of a head, or a gaze held across panels, she tells us so much about the main characters crush on her friend, of which he is blithely oblivious. Ang doesn’t need dialogue to do any of this, though she then wields dialogue like a scalpel to deepen the wounds. That’s impressive cartooning. I think the storytelling is also thematically very complex and subtle as it paints this initial idea about the lack of empathy between two people and then turns it back on the main character by her inaction in the face of the bullying she witnesses at the pool. Unlike Dream Diary, in Swimsuit, Ang is submitting herself to the requirements of narrative for structure and resolution and point of view - it’s a lot more demanding, and she succeeds in creating this wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing of a story, that has something real to say about human interactions, and which stuck in my mind for weeks after reading."