Big Sam Hannigan sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. Every month, he also makes secret overnight trips on behalf of 'Cousin Joseph' - a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on - to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will film only upbeat films that idealize a mythic America. But Sam, himself, is not in for a happy ending, as the secret of his unseen mentor's duplicity is slowly revealed to him. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/04/18
By Feiffer, Jules. Artist Feiffer, Jules. Cover by Feiffer, Jules.
Prezzo di copertina: USD 25,95
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Pagina del Previews (MAY/2018): 338
Data di uscita: 13/06/18
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Long celebrated as a modern master of graphic literature, David Small has elicited in his work comparisons to Stan Lee and even Alfred Hitchcock. His internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches, told the story of a childhood in disarray. Werewolf at Dusk, appearing nearly fifteen years later, turned its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. The three stories in this collection are linked by the dread of things internal. In the title story, an adaptation of Lincoln Michel's classic short piece, the dread is that of a man who has reached senility with something repellant in his nature. The specter of old age also haunts the semiautobiographical story 'A Walk in the Old City.' Brain matter cascades and spiders loom as a psychoanalyst, self-assured in his practice, wanders along empty streets, reality warping into the irrational with the insouciance of a dream. In the final story, a reinterpretation of Jean Ferry's 'The Tiger in Vogue,' this dreamscape gives way to the ominous environs of Berlin in the 1920s. (immagine)
Categoria: Books: graphic novels (in preordine)
Uscita: 03/07/24
By Small, David. Artist Small, David.
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Pagina del Previews (MAY/2024): 370
Data di uscita: 03/07/24
A bomb, an explosion, and the death of a father form the core of this gripping graphic memoir. Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland is a searing work of graphic nonfiction that tells the history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author. In 1975, Bunjevac's mother flees her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina - then only a toddler - and her older sister back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Nina's father, Peter, was a diehard Serbian nationalist who had been forced to leave his country in the 1950s. Remaining in Canada, Peter became involved with a terrorist organization bent on overthrowing the Communist Yugoslav government and attacking its supporters in North America. Through exquisitely haunting black-and white art, Fatherland tells an unforgettable true story of how the scars of history are borne by family and nation alike. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 05/12/14
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2014): 340
Data di uscita: 21/01/15
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In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling 'Arkham' tales, including 'The Call of Cthulhu,' At the Mountains of Madness, 'The Whisperer in Darkness,' 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth,' 'The Colour Out of Space,' and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 03/10/14
By Klinger, Leslie S..
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2014): 434
Data di uscita: 05/11/14
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Jules Feiffer's Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 02/10/15
By Feiffer, Jules. Artist Feiffer, Jules. Cover by Feiffer, Jules.
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Pagina del Previews (SEP/2015): 372
Data di uscita: 04/11/15
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