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Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
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Bittersweet and Compelling
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Read-Alikes for Ducks
Summer Reads: Adult
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Read-Alikes for Ducks
Summer Reads: Adult
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For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager,...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Welcome aboard the tour van of Major Threat--Brooklyn's finest rock band yet to catch a break--as they traverse the US of A on a last-ditch summer festival tour. On drums we've got "band dad" Ed, the stoic drummer who keeps bumping into tech bro coworkers that he can't quite relate to. On bass, there's Paul, a man of mostly mystery, who drinks hard and yet manages to glide through life, intelligible to no one except energy-drink-guzzling Marco, the...
Author
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Dream Fossil is a collection of 15 short stories by the late Satoshi Kon. These stories, serialized in a variety of magazines in the 1980's, give a rare glimpse into the early stages of Kon's uniquely compelling style of storytelling. The buds of dream-like themes and imaginative worldviews that would blossom in his later animated works are also readily apparent. Yes the flights of fancy are anchored by knowing, empathetic portrayals of the very human...
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