Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 - Couverture rigide

Ott, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1560978759 ISBN 13 : 9781560978756

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2008

Synopsis

Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or part of it seem to achieve a certain importance and offer him hints and possible solutions. And the numbers signal a radical change in his luck. He gets to know a woman, falls in love with her, and one night, in a casino, he wins a huge amount of money when gambling on these numbers. But the next morning, the woman and money have disappeared. The man goes in search of the woman and the money. But from that day on, his luck changes and the numbers bring him only bad luck, sending him inexorably into an abyss that he might not recover from. Thomas Ott's O. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror like The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt, or modern masters like filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan; his hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratchboard illustrations will haunt you long after you've put the book down.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

by T. Ott
Forget Sin City, welcome to Swiss horror master T. Ott's first full-length graphic novel! The Number 73307-23-4156-6-96-8 is full of guilt! Desperation! Gambling! Disappearing money! Disappearing women! Bad luck! And love! When cleaning the cell of an executed prisoner, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. The numbers awake the prison guard's curiosity and he sets off in search of their meaning. Perhaps, if he can answer their riddle, he'll find a new meaning to his life as well? T. Ott's O. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror such as The Twilight Zone as well as fans of hard-boiled detective fiction by the like of Raymond Chandler.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Geboren 1966 in Zürich, ist Comic-Zeichner, Filmemacher und Leadsänger der Rock-Band «Beelzebub». Er lebt in Zürich. Ein neues Buch von Thomas Ott wird heutzutage in der internationalen Comicszene als Grossereignis gefeiert! Mit Virtuosität setzt Ott in seinen Comics die Schabkartontechnik ein, die seinen düster-makabren Geschichten ihre Unverwechselbarkeit verleihen.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1560978759
• ISBN 13: 9781560978756
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 104