"Figuring out how best to bring images to life on the page in the way you want to see them is key for a young artist, and Mendes’s simple, sketchy, cartoony line is the perfect means to tell the stories about a tomboyish young girl, her family, and her environment. The expressiveness of her line and the fluidity of motion and panel-to-panel transitions mark an artist who is comfortable as a storyteller."
- Rob Clough at The Comics Journal
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"Instead of nostalgic, [the stories] are without that boring, overwrought adult wistfulness; Freddy’s days are long and full of small things, anti-adventures really, that nevertheless feel like complete narratives...Being a kid is weird and serious business and Freddy Stories is both a great reminder of that and a call to pay attentions, play harder and yell when necessary."
-Carrie at Try Harder
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"Melissa Mendes is young but uncannily perceptive about children. Or perhaps she’s so perceptive because she is so young. Freddy Stories is a nice little book supported by a Xeric grant that collects her comics about a girl named Freddy, and it is gentle and subtle in the way the best children’s literature is."
-Hillary Brown at Paste Magazine
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