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Curses: Glenn Ganges Stories

Door Kevin Huizenga

Categorie	Strips
Boeknummer	#319684-KO2
Titel	Curses: Glenn Ganges Stories
Auteur	Huizenga, Kevin
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Montreal : Drawn and Quarterly
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	1894937864
ISBN13	9781894937863
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, comics in b/w and some in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting	"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time. com Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes peculiar ways. Huizenga fuses the most banal aspects of modern culture with its most looming questions in a consistently genial style. Lighthearted, but with a healthy dose of nineteenth-century spine tingling, the narratives presented in Curses are insightful portrayals of reality. Huizenga's central character in his comics is Glenn Ganges, a seemingly middle-class man living in the suburbs whose blank-eyed wonderment at everyday experiences brings together such diverse aspects of our worl... (Lees verder)d as golf, theology, late-night diners, parenthood, politics, Sudanese refugees, and hallucinatory vision, into a complete experience as multifaceted as our own lives. Huizenga is regarded by many as one of the most promising young cartoonists of his generation, whose artistic talent, singular writing, and studied substance prove the versatility of his skill. Curses collects his work from Kramer's Ergot and The Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, his award-winning and nominated comic-book series Or Else, and Time magazine; it is the most extensive selection of his comics to date in a single volume.
Pagina's	145
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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