This long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes (Ghost World and Patience) is a genre-bending thriller from one of the most assured storytellers of all time.
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story ? actually, stories ? of its title character. Clowes calls upon a lifetime of inspiration to create the most complex and personal graphic novel of his distinguished career. Rich with visual detail, an impeccable ear for language and dialogue, and thrilling twists, Monica is a multilayered masterpiece in comics form that alludes to many of the genres that have defined the medium ? war, romance, horror, crime, the supernatural, etc. ? but in a mysterious, uncategorizable, and quintessentially Clowesian way that rewards multiple readings.Five years in the making, Monica marks the apex of creativity from one of the defining voices of the graphic novel boom over the past quarter-century. A new book from Clowes is always a huge event in comics and literary circles; Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023.
The brilliant graphic novel behind the major new film starring Gemma Aterton ( Quantum of Solace ), Jason Flemyng ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ), Fabrice Luchini ( In the House ) and Mel Raido ( Spooks ) Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma''s sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert''s notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma''s neighbour, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma''s wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine''s diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now.
In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour.
The nine-issue comics series won a l996 American Book Award. It is now published for the first time in one volume, befitting its status as one of the great classics of graphic non-fiction.
Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang, his book about the strange society that is North Korea, Delisle turned his attention to Shenzhen, the cold, urban city in Southern China that is sealed off with electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. The result is another brilliant graphic novel - funny, scary, utterly original and illuminating.
The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated as parodies, but whom now I wanted to humanize... amidst a setting of memories of my Omaha childhood and Nebraska upbringing.' (Chris Ware, Monograph) Now twenty years later, Ware is publishing Rusty Brown in book form. Brown is shown as a young Nebraskan boy and as a man approaching middle age, who has a lifelong obsession with collecting action figures and similar pop cultural detritus, particularly Supergirl. Rusty Brown's only friend throughout his life is Chalky White. White is also a collector of G.I. Joe and other action figures, but gives up collecting as he grows up, gets married, and starts a family, unlike his friend Rusty, who remains locked in a permanent manchild state, always looking for elements of his lost childhood. A recurring theme in the series is Rusty's greedy, egocentric, and bold behaviour opposed to Chalky's kind, timid, and often naive nature. Rusty is often utilizing tricks to swindle Chalky of his action figures, while Chalky, being highly gullible, is never able to see through Rusty's true nature.
Tamara Drewe, son nez refait, ses jambes sans fin et ses airs de princesse sexuelle.
La chroniqueuse trash revient semer panique et confusion à Ewedown, le village à la Gainsborough où une population rurale rêvant de la ville cohabite avec une colonie d'exilés bobos acharnés à faire revivre une campagne fantasmée.
Ben, Andy et Nicholas, le triangle de mâles en chasse se reforme autour de la belle amazone, sous l'oeil toujours concupiscent de Glen, l'universitaire obèse en panne d'inspiration, et celui, douloureusement humain, de Beth, la bonne fée de Stonefield, retraite pour écrivains surmenés.
Casey et Jody, les adolescentes locales, abreuvées de presse people, hypnotisées par la foire aux vanités londonienne, sont là aussi. Le tout prend force et vie sous la caméra du maître du cinéma britannique Stephen Frears. L'homme qui nous fit découvrir Hanif Kureishi, relire les Liaisons Dangereuses, regarder the Queen d'un autre oeil, se risque à l'adaptation d'un graphic novel.
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.
As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for. When she graduates and is admitted to the official theatre school, she discovers that Bojinsky's view of ballet is only one of many and that she can't adapt to new rules, new visions. She flees Russia for Berlin, where she meets a group of drama students. Together they create a new form of theatre - and conquer the world.
Brilliantly drawn, Polina is a moving and intimate story of self-discovery. It confirms Bastien Vives as one of the most exciting talents at work in the graphic novel field today.
2012. Jack Barlow retrouve à son domicile Patience, sa petite amie enceinte, assassinée.
2029. Toujours hanté par le meurtre de Patience, Jack Barlow entend parler d'un homme qui aurait inventé une machine à remonter le temps.
À la page suivante, Jack se retrouve propulsé en 2006, observant Patience pendant ses rendez-vous galants avec différents hommes. Et si l'un d'eux était le meurtrier ?
A travers 14 livres/objets dans un coffret, suivez la vie et les questionnements existentiels d'une jeune trentenaire cherchant l'âme soeur, d'un vieux couple qui ne peut plus se supporter, et d'une vieille demoiselle propriétaire de cet immeuble de Chicago dans lequel tout ce petit monde habite.
Sans début ni fin, "Building Stories" est un ouvrage à l'ambition artistique et émotionnelle inédite qui pose l'éternelle question : est-il préférable de vivre seul ou à deux ?
En conjuguant au sein d'un même récit les pistes explorées auparavant dans Comme un gant de velours et Ghost World, Daniel Clowes aboutit quinze ans de recherche et nous offre le livre de la maturité. Mêlant observation pointue des sentiments et ambiances à la limite du fantastique, il dresse un époustouflant portrait de l'adolescence en quête d'identité et signe son chef-d'oeuvre. Publié dans son pays par un éditeur de littérature au même titre que les ouvrages d'écrivains contemporains, ce livre a été salué par la critique comme la preuve ( enfin ! ) que la bande dessinée était une écriture à part entière.
Clowes's fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in "The New York Times Magazine," is now collected and includes 40 pages of new material.
Avec Wilson, Clowes revisite sa thématique fétiche, à savoir la médiocrité humaine, la portant à un nouveau degré d'excellence.
Clowes nous offre une tranche de pessimisme brillamment découpée et magnifiquement dessinée. À l'heure où les bons sentiments sont légions, il fait bon de lire ce chef-d'oeuvre remarquable de misanthropie.
Daniel Clowes est né à Chicago où, un jour de 1924, deux étudiants assassinèrent par ennui leur jeune voisin, et le souvenir de Leopold et Loeb hante les pages de Ice haven. Cet album raconte comment la disparition d'un petit garçon bouleverse la routine d'une bourgade du Midwest, repliée sur ellemême, et met à jour la solitude et la frustration de ses habitants. L'auteur de David Boring marche ici sur les traces d'Edward Hopper ou de Charles Schultz et cartographie la terrible mélancolie du quotidien. Derrière l'ironie transparaît une empathie profonde pour les prisonniers de Ice Haven, qui ne cessent de se heurter aux barreaux de leur cage en cherchant aveuglément une issue à leurs rêves.
Dragman tells the story of August Crimp, a man who has superpowers when he puts on women's clothes. August loves wearing a dress but is deeply ashamed of his compulsion and terrified of rejection should it ever come out. So he tells no one. Not even his wife. But then one day a little girl falls from the rooftop cafe at the Art Museum and August has no choice but to fly and save her - an event witnessed by hundreds of people.
And August Crimp's life is never the same again.
Dragman is Steven Appleby's first long-form graphic thriller. Inspired by the superhero comics he read as a child and informed by his own secret life as a transvestite, Steven Appleby has created a multi-layered, tightly plotted, cleverly structured novel with a compulsive forward drive in which August battles greed, evil and his own self-doubt in a fight to save himself, his marriage - and the human soul. A real page turner, Dragman brims with humanity, subtlety and wit - plus plenty of Steven Appleby's oblique and absurdly imaginative musings on 'what is life really all about?' Fans of Steven Appleby's unmistakable drawing style, as seen in his many books and in comic strips such as Captain Star (NME, Observer), Small Birds Singing (The Times), and Loomus (Guardian), will not be disappointed.
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. This work explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the SENSATIONAL LONDON MUSICAL The award-winning musical adaptation that took America by storm now playing to five star reviews at the Young Vic 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this.
Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.
Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
---- 'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent 'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard
Graphic novelsThe comic strips of Chris Ware are collected in this graphic novel, which celebrates the life of Jimmy Corrigan, a boy with a face like a disappointed old man. "A comic book with the soul of a literary novel" The New Yorker.
Dans son univers parallèle, Doug travaille comme agent de nettoyage dans les souterrains de la Ruche, essayant d'ignorer les cris, lisant des livres aux éleveurs. A mesure que l'histoire se déroule, de cadre en cadre, les souvenirs lui reviennent et le replongent dans sa vie réelle. Et c'est là qu'est le vrai cauchemar. Dans la plus pure veine graphique de Burns, cette nouvelle création d'un des artistes les plus passionnants de la bande dessinée est effroyablement captivante.
Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians, from Germany and Japan in World War II to Libya in 1986; 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly' is written from a victim's perspective, as Sacco illustrates his mother's harrowing experiences during Italian and German WWII raids on Malta; and 'How I Loved the War', Defeatist's centrepiece, is Sacco's impassioned but sardonic reflection on the Gulf War, and the surrounding propaganda and media circus. Published during the reign of Bush I, it has since acquired an even sharper relevance.
Defeatist also features Sacco's first (relatively) long-form piece, 'In the Company of Long Hair', a hilarious roadie's-eye view of an American punk band's eventful European tour from Amsterdam to Madrid, as well as 'Cartoon Genius', 'Voyage to the End of the Library', 'A Disgusting Experience', and 'On My Day Off', a cycle of funny and rueful autobiographic comics that display Sacco's graphic verve to its fullest extent.
Defeatist is rounded off with a large section of Sacco's earliest, pointedly satirical strips (none of which has been collected in book form before) and new introductions and notes by the author.
A combination of youthful indiscretions and mature masterworks, Notes from a Defeatist spotlights the work of a brilliant young artist as he defines the capabilities and potential of his chosen medium.
In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never know whether Neven is telling the truth.
