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Reklaw, Jesse

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1606996762 ISBN 13 : 9781606996768

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2013

Synopsis

Veteran alternative cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, creator of the long-running weekly comic strip Slow Wave, delivers this tragicomic graphic memoir, his first long-form work. Presented as a series of comic novellas that together comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often hilarious memoir about childhood, family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use, the entire book is told through cleverly inviting conceits like cat histories and card games. The graphic novel is told in five parts: In “Thirteen Cats� (featured in The Best American Comics), Reklaw discovers coping mechanisms that mimic his family pets; “Toys I Love� relates the author’s prepubescent brushes with deviant sexual activity, and the way innocence converges with real sexual trauma; “The Fred Robinson Story� tells the story of Reklaw’s period stalking perfect strangers; “The Stacked Deck,� in which hereditary influences towards criminal behavior, drug use and depression are explored via card games the author played with his family; and “Lessoned,� a family history of mental illness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jesse Reklaw grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master's degree in computer science at Yale University. In 1995, while pursuing a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, he began self-publishing comics and dropped out of Yale to be a cartoonist.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"A MEMOIR OF CHILDHOOD, FAMILY, MENTAL ILLNESS AND CATS Veteran alternative cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, creator of the long-running weekly comic strip Slow Wave, delivers this tragicomic graphic memoir, his first long-form work. Presented as a series of comic novellas that together comprise a thoughtful, sometimes dark and often hilarious memoir about childhood, family, death, mental illness, sex and drug use, the entire book is told through cleverly inviting conceits like cat histories and card games. The graphic novel is told in five parts: In 'Thirteen Cats' (featured in The Best American Comics), Reklaw discovers coping mechanisms that mimic his family pets

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606996762
• ISBN 13: 9781606996768
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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