Loved the way different cultures were represented by their food and how each dish was an important part of each girls childhood. The meaning of friendship and the importance of loving and being there for your friends was beautifully told in this story.

Actual rating: 3.5

I absolutely adore food based stories. There is something so wholesome about how food brings people together. Supper Club is created when three girls, Nora, Lili, and Iris, need to come up with a way to get together after classes in their final year of High School. The story follows them along this final year as they go through rough patches in their friendship, conflicts between homelife, serious illness of a parent, and questions what someone should share vs what someone should/has the right to keep private. But through all this, Supper Club remains something special to the three of them.

The food wasn’t as central to the Supper Club’s plot as I had initially thought, but I really enjoyed the creation, momentum, and sometimes messiness of Supper Club. It felt like it represented all of their feelings and conflicts throughout the always complicated last year of High School. Each chapter is represented by a different food, and while we don’t see them cooking much - the story is much more about how people's lives move forward and they can come back and connect over food.

The art is fun and stylized and there is humour and heart that shines throughout the story. I would love to see more foodie stuff, but I think the story that was told was beautiful and exactly what it needed to be. I would definitely read more from this author.

*I received an eARC from Image Comics & NetGalley. All opinions are my own*

This graphic novel makes me want to create my own supper club. Absolutely love the idea.

The art is cute. The story is wholesome. Themes like the power of good friends and good food and mental health.

This was cute, I did wish the illustration weren’t so blurry but the story was super cute and I could see this in my classroom !

The cover for Jackie Morrow‘s Supper Club immediately caught my eye and the synopsis really drew me in: it follows High School Seniors Nora, Lili, and Iris as they go through their final year of high school. When it seems like they can’t find a common time to hang out because of differing classes and extracurriculars, they decide to start their own club—the Supper Club. Not only will it look good on their college application, but it’ll also be a dedicated place for them to hang out and enjoy food.

This YA coming-of-age graphic novel was a quick and enjoyable read, however, it seemed short given the length of time it covered (which was an entire school year). While I genuinely enjoyed the premise and the beautiful illustrations, I felt like it glossed over a few scenes and just skipped over to the next part of the story. Since the novel follows the main characters for their entire senior year, I ended up having to extrapolate what happened most of the time. It felt like I was hopping from one character to another and just getting a tiny glimpse into what’s going on in their lives.

I was also a bit let down on the amount of foods featured in Supper Club. While every chapter featured a “special dish”, only one or two were really touched on and explained. Most of the time the dishes weren’t fully illustrated at all. As this book was marketed as “foodie fusion”, I was hoping to have gotten into each member’s dishes a little bit more, especially since I loved reading the background to Nora’s Italian Rainbow Cookies.

I did like the diversity of characters and the themes and overall storylines—on friendship, family, mental health, and school— featured in this coming-of-age graphic novel. It touched on very real struggles and situations a lot of teenagers and young adults can relate to and provided great representation for various cultures through food.

Lastly, the bonus material included at the end of the graphic novel was a great touch. It includes 3 recipes for dishes mentioned in the book as well as early work concepts for character designs.

Overall, I’d recommend this if you’re looking for a YA coming-of-age graphic novels that are based on friendship themed and with similar vibes to books by Raina Telgemeier. It also would be fun for foodies to get inspiration for future foods and dishes—I’ve been eyeing the recipe for Mac and Cheese!

Thank you Netgalley and Image Comics for the ARC!

- beware: you will be hungry while reading this! I love books that center around how joyful food is, and this really captures so many aspects of the joys of cooking and eating with friends!
- I loved the drawing style! It was easy to read the story and the art added to the meaning!
- This book would be a great read for anyone in their senior year of high school (as well as everyone who has already gone through that particular rite of passage).
- I loved the friendships in this one! The story is really split between 3 friends, and we get a glimpse into their backgrounds/homelife. The ending really wrapped everything up so well, and it was so sweet to read!

Thank you to Netgalley, Image Comics, and Jackie Morrow for providing me with a free electronic review copy in exchange for an honest review.

Supper Club follows three friends entering their final year of High School, through the pressures of getting into college, dating, anxiety, and dealing with illness and grief. But one shining light keeps them going, Friday night is Supper Club night. A potluck where everyone cooks, brings their dishes, and eats great food together.

A wonderful story of how food can bring us together, can settle disputes and cheer us up. I did enjoy how we get to see the perspective of each friend, but in a just over 200 page comic, that meant that sadly the perspectives were a little thin, and in some cases felt a little rushed. I would have loved to see more detail about each of the character's struggles and how food and their friends helped them through it. The art was lovingly drawn, in that anime way that somehow 2D cartoon food can look so delicious, and there were even recipes for some of the foods.

Overall, it was a great read, but I felt I could have had a little more depth, perhaps in a further volume?

this book was really nothing like it seemed it was supposed to be? i love me a graphic novel and i was excited to read one about food and to see all the delicious drawings but honestly it barely had any food in it? it mostly focused on the characters lives outside of the supper club and 90% of the time i was confused on what i was reading? the storylines jumped around so much i really didn't understand any of it. i also never really grasped which character was who because we got such a short amount of time with each of them that it just felt like i was being shown someone just for the sake of having something on the page. each chapter seemed to be titled after the food someone made in that chapter but then there were some where a food item/ that food item was just never mentioned? i was waiting for it and then suddenly we were onto the next chapter? i somehow feel like pages were missing in my arc if that's even possible lol

overall i liked the art style and the concept sounded so great but honestly this book felt like, nothing happened?

I liked this graphic novel a lot. It was fun, and the three main characters reminded me of the main characters from my favorite show, Amphibia. There was a lot of drama and they each went through issues but tried to remain friends. My biggest complaints are that the food wasn't actually that much of a focus during the story, and we never learn much about the other members of the club. Like, who are those others girls? They were never introduced.

this was cute and fine and i liked the art and i would like a bowl of cartoon mac and cheese, even if it did put too much on its plate and also blue cheese in the included and aforementioned mac and cheese recipe - two significant crimes

Supper Club is a cute graphic novel that follows a group of teens in their final year of high school who make a food club to ensure they spend time together. It explores topics of friendship and mental health.

A heart warming and nostalgia filled book. Will definitely recommend. Great character and i live the way the food was drawn 🍱 🥘 🍲

Five star: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a delightful book about 3 best friends getting through their senior year of high school together. As a food enthusiast, I loved the food theme of this graphic novel, and the recipes at the end are the icing on top. Jackie Morrow did a brilliant job tying in the food theme with the struggles that high school seniors go through when they are about to graduate. The excitement for what’s to come, mixed with the anxiety of leaving the known shines through for these girls as they navigate the finality of their senior year. I can see this being a great read for any high school senior feeling nervous about their next steps, letting them know they are not alone in those feelings.

Thanks for the eARC. This was a super cute story about friendship, coping with hard times, and the fear and sadness of saying goodbye to high school. It's very sweet, and relatable.

I absolutely adored this graphic novel and could not put it down. The characters are all really well fleshed out and their flaws are believable. The story touches on so many different emotions and was an absolute joy to read even while sad at times. I also really appreciated the recipe cards at the end of the book. It made me very hungry and the artwork on the food reminds me of Ghibli food!

This is really wholesome and cute. I love the foodie aspects, especially the recipes at the end. I do wish there had been more focus on the food as the title is 'Supper Club' after all. I thought there may be more focus on the cooking and why they chose the food and then enjoying and sharing meals. However, I still really enjoyed this and liked the character arcs.
My favourite bit was when they made rainbow cookies and I also loved the cosy artwork that showed time passing and what time of year it was with halloween, new years eve, Chinese New year and valentines day being depicted in page spreads.

Would recommend as a cosy quick read for the rainy autumn nights with a cup of something warm and a cookie, or a comforting bowl of mac and cheese.

I was very excited to read that graphic novel - the cover was amazing, the topic spoke to me, it looked like a cozy read with lots of food talk, exactly what I love.
It was a nice new adult comic, cute drawings, but not much depth in the story. Everything felt very surface level, the actual supper club was more background setting than the actual place of action. Most of the scenes are not actually as they are preparing/eating the food, but during the rest of the lives of the main 3 characters. They are talking a lot about the club, but we don't really get to "feel" why it's such an important place. as most of the drawings during supper club are ellipses with no text, only to give an "atmosphere", which was so weird to me.
Only 3 recipes are shared at the end... I had hoped for each of the chapter name recipes, like in most food novels.
But still, I would recommend to people who enjoyed the comic "Relish" and "To Drink and to Eat".

One of the sweetest stories of friendships falling apart and coming together that I’ve read in ages. The art is fun and dynamic, portraying youthful silliness and high drama with equal grace. Also, recipes!

This heartwarming story is about a group of teenage friends who are going through their final year of high school. Recognising that they will have very little time together because of their studies, they organise a weekly supper club and they cook, eat and share their lives together as they go through the changes and challenges of school and life.

The artwork is colourful and the story is engaging. It is an enjoyable book with recipes included.

Copy provided by Netgalley in exchange for an unbiased review.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

A nice, slice of life, cozy story about a group of friends in school. I like the idea of people bonding over something, especially food, and it feels like a fresh idea for a group of high schoolers to connect over. I wish I had something similar growing up!