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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
ISBN
1852425350
EAN
9781852425357
Date of Publication
1996-12-15
Publication Name
N/A
Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
It's Dark in London: Graphic Short Stories (Mask Noir Series)
Artist
Zarate, Oscar
Brand
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Serpent's Tail The Limited
ISBN-10
1852425350
ISBN-13
9781852425357
eBay Product ID (ePID)
979363

Product Key Features

Book Title
It's Dark in London : Graphic Short Stories
Number of Pages
108 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
1997
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
Oscar Zarate
Book Series
Mask Noir Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
9.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-069162
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
'The book succeeds in making the reader look at the city with fresh eyes? Time Out ?What impresses most about this volume is... that they've managed to draw in such an eclectic bunch of artists and writers. Unmissable? i-D
Dewey Decimal
741.5/942
Synopsis
Writing back to Rome in 36 AD from Londinium, the illustrator Malus Maximus wrote: Depravity, plague and licentious debauchery seem to bring out the best in the rude, blunt, thick-skinned Saxon people. There is no shortage of subjects for me to depict. Comics have thrived in London over the centuries with Gilray, Hogarth, the first edition of 'Comick Magazine' in 1796, Thomas Rowlandson's 'Doctor Syntax' in 1809 and the first edition of Punch in 1841. In this century, there have been attempts to reserve comics for kids with the growth of magazines like Dandy and Beano. But the comic strip is too rich an art form to be just for kids in recent years, a new generation of British artists has developed a rich synthesis of the Continental graphic novel and American comic strips. In It's Dark in London the work of some of these artists are featured Neil Gaiman, David McKean, Alan Moore, Carol Swain, Dix in tandem with the stories of London writers like Iain Sinclair, Graeme Gordon, Christoper Petit and Stella Duffy. This fusion produces a portrait of London that captures the city's fundamental essence as exquisite mixture of lofty towers and gutter sleaze, of suburban gentility and urban depravity, of private vices and public philantrophy. It is a book that is as graphic as it is visionary., This is a collection of graphic short stories which capture the visions of London, human and architectural, reflected in the city's puddles. Each story is set in a particular area of London, and brings together successful comic book writers to produce a mix of styles and disciplines., Writing back to Rome in 36 AD from Londinium, the illustrator Malus Maximus wrote: "Depravity, plague and licentious debauchery seem to bring out the best in the rude, blunt, thick-skinned Saxon people. There is no shortage of subjects for me to depict." It's Dark in London features a generation of British artists who have developed a rich synthesis of the Continental graphic novel and American comic strips. Including the work of ? Neil Gaiman, David McKean, Alan Moore, Carol Swain, Dix ? in tandem with the stories of London writers like Iain Sinclair, Graeme Gordon, Christoper Petit and Stella Duffy. This fusion produces a portrait of London that captures the city's mixture of lofty towers and gutter sleaze, of suburban gentility and urban depravity, of private vices and public philanthropy. It is a book as graphic as it is visionary.

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