Abandoned Cars - Couverture souple

Lane, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606993410 ISBN 13 : 9781606993415

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2010

Synopsis

Abandoned Cars is Tim Lane's first collection of graphic short stories, noirish narratives that are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama by way of the desperate and haunted characters that populate its pages. The writing is straightforward, the stories mainstream but told in a pulpy idiom with an existential edge, often in the first person, reminiscent of films like Out of the Past. Visually, Lane's drawing is in a realistic mode, which heightens the tension in stories that veer between naturalism on the one hand and the comical, nightmarish, and hallucinatory on the other. It's an America depicted as a subdued and haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters boozing, brawling, haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis.

A propos du livre

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Now in paperback, this debut collection of short stories are united by their exploration of the great American mythological drama. Tim Lane's characters exist on the margins of society-alienated, floating in the void between hope and despair. Visually reminiscent of Al Feldstein and Charles Burns, Lane's idiosyncratic and tense realism weaves between comic absurdity, nightmarish naturalism, chemical hallucination, and ecstatic terror. Lane's America is a haunted Coney Island, made up of lost characters haplessly shooting themselves in the face, and hopping freight trains in search of Elvis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606993410
• ISBN 13: 9781606993415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible