Set to Sea - Rilegato

Weing, Drew

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1606993682 ISBN 13: 9781606993682

Casa editrice: Fantagraphics Books, 2010

Riassunto

Running up tabs at local bars by day and haunting thedock by night, Set to Sea's protagonist is a big lug of an aspiring poetwho writes paeans to the seafaring life. When he gets shanghaied aboard aclipper bound for Hong Kong, however, he finds the sailor's life a bit rougherthan his romantic nautical fantasies! In the course of this black-and-whitegraphic novel, he helps rebuff a pirate assault, survives a gunshot to the eye,and learns to live and love a Conradian life on the sea, all the while writingpoetry about pirates, bad food, unceremonial funerals, foreign ports, andunexpected epiphanies. By the end of his life, he's found satisfaction in hisadventures a receptive and appreciative readership. What more could one ask for?Drawn in an elaborate crosshatched style that falls somewhere between GustaveDore's engravings and E. C. Segar's Popeye, Set to Sea is partrollicking adventure, part maritime ballad told in visual rhyme. Every page is asingle panel; every panel is a stunning illustration, every illustration a partof a larger whole that tells a story in the deft language of cartooning.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Fantagraphics Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1606993682
• ISBN 13: 9781606993682
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144