The End of the Fucking World - Brossura

Forsman, Chuck

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1606996673 ISBN 13: 9781606996676

Casa editrice: Fantagraphics Books, 2013

Riassunto

TEotFW follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character’s perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as James’s character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their futures. He harbors violent fantasies and begins to act on them, while Alyssa remains as willfully ignorant for as long as she can, blinded by young love. Forsman’s story highlights the disdain, fear and existential search that many teenagers fear, but through a road trip drama that owes as much to Badlands as The Catcher in the Rye. Forsman’s inviting, Charles Schulz-influenced style lends a deadpan quality that underscores the narrative’s tension. The End of the Fucking World is certain to be one of the most talked-about graphic novels of 2013. Forsman is arguably the most acclaimed talent to come out of the Center for Cartoon Studies, a school founded in 2004 by graphic novelist James Sturm and educator Michelle Ollie in White River Junction, VT. Forsman graduated in 2008 and is a two-time Ignatz Award-winner for his self-published minicomic, Snake Oil. The End of the Fucking World is his first graphic novel.

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Recensione:

'It's a startling book, as succinct as you like and more detached than you can imagine, told in eight-page sequences that were originally self-published as mini-comics. It's pocket-sized and black and white, told with a thin, often fragile line. It's as cold and it's empty, just like its protagonists. It will prey on your mind.' --- Page 45

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• Editore: Fantagraphics Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1606996673
• ISBN 13: 9781606996676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 136