Flung Out of Space is a comic book about novelist and comic book writer, Patricia Highsmith. Highsmith was famous for writing Strangers on a Train, the psychological thriller that got turned into a fan loved movie of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. After writing Strangers on a Train, Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt, which is a book about lesbians that has a happy ending. This was very uncharacteristic for books around the time (1950s). 

Highsmith was a not a good person and the author and illustrator let us know in a forward at the beginning of the comic. Highsmith often hit on and cheated with her co-workers female partners, was an out a proud racist, and she was just down right rude to people she interacted with. I think Highsmith portrayal was a bit sanitized, I know that Highsmith was a racist up until her dead. She's quoted as saying some honestly horrifying things about Hitler and Jewish people. 

I love period pieces and that includes the comic medium. It was interesting to see Highsmith navigate life as a lesbian in 1950's America. Some parts made me feel bad for her, like the parts where

she has psychiatrists telling her that they can "cure" her lesbianism.

Then I remembered that she wasn't really a good person and she was a racist and misogynist so I now I struggle to feel bad for her but I kind of still do. 

I really loved the art, it was nice to look at. I enjoyed the information value and the nice aesthetics that this comic has.

I give this comic a 4 out of 5 because the real Highsmith was a worse person than they portrayed and I don't really think they should have held back in that aspect.