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Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hot Comb about?

AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl's first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It's a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women's needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form

Who reads Hot Comb?

Author

Ebony Flowers

Publisher

Drawn and Quarterly Publications

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770464193

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Comics, Fiction, Sociology

Rating

4.5 / 5 (147 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14