BEAT IT RUFUS HC

BEAT IT RUFUS HC


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Magazzino ItalyComics
Editore
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Previews
previews USA dicembre 2024
EAN
979887500047852299
data pubblicazione
13/01/2025
Data di uscita/spedizione
19/02/2025
pagina
313
scrittore
Sciver, Noah Van
artista
Sciver, Noah Van
Artista copertina
Sciver, Noah Van
numero di pagine
220

From the author of Fante Bukowski and Joseph Smith and the Mormons, a hysterical character comedy about an aging rock-God-in-his-own-mind forced to face the music. Rufus Baxter is an aging, professionally unemployed loser, desperately - delusionally - hanging on to his 1980s hair metal fantasies of headlining arenas, despite so much evidence to the contrary (like audience members ducking when he tosses promo t-shirts at an open-mic night). The rest of his bandmates in Funky Cool died decades ago in a horrible plane crash on the cusp of their first big break. When he gets kicked out of the Denver storage unit he's been illegally sleeping in, his only prospect is a last-second wedding gig the very next day - in Wyoming. A hop in his car, and possibly a peyote button or two, sends Baxter on a psychedelic and existential road trip through his past, and forces him to confront every bad decision he's made along the way. Beat It, Rufus is very much a kindred spirit with Van Sciver's Fante Bukowski series, a comedic character study both played for laughs but also infused with a surprising gravitas that has you rooting for Rufus despite having every reason not to. Van Sciver's comedic and graphic talents are in peak form in this original graphic novel, his follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed graphic bio, Joseph Smith and the Mormons.


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BABY BLUE TP

This haunting dystopian thriller graphic novel explores themes of mental health, queer identity, and the dangers of unchecked fascism. In the not-so-distant future, twenty-something Betty lives in a fascistic society that menacingly polices mental health. When she is caught crying in public, the Peacekeepers take her to an Orwellian health facility to control her emotions. There, she meets the defiant Berina, who opens her eyes to an alternative reality: the Resistance. If Betty can navigate a rollicking underworld, where all manner of queerness is celebrated, she just might have a chance to strike back against the regime. Deliciously twisted, fiercely contemporary, and backed by a Swedish pop soundtrack, Baby Blue is the dynamic graphic novel debut of comics artist Bim Eriksson. A vital manifesto about the need to express your unique identity in a chillingly conformist world.

(W/A/CA) Bim Ericksson


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COMPLETE WORKS OF FANTE BUKOWSKI TP

Living in a beat-up motel, consorting with the downtrodden and mid-level literati, Fante Bukowski must overcome great obstacles: a love interest turned rival, ghostwriting a teen celebrity's memoirs, no actual talent ? to gain the respect and adoration from critics and, more importantly, his father. Van Sciver has created a scathing, hilarious, and empathetic character study of a self-styled author determined to prove that he's just one more poem (or drink) away from success. Originally published in hardcover in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski quickly sold out and is nominated for a 2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album. This expanded paperback edition includes eight new pages, including a 2020 Slate interview with Fante himself and a cover gallery of Fante's previous books. Also: a foreword by novelist Ryan Boudinot (Blueprints of the Afterlife); a facsimile reproduction of Bukowski's literary debut, 6 Poems (thought lost to time in the wake of a motel fire that destroyed the entire original print run); a 'Works Cited' section; and a selection of 'visual tributes' by over two dozen cartoonists - including Nina Bunjevac, Simon Hanselmann, Jesse Jacobs, Ed Piskor, Leslie Stein, and others.

FCBD 2024 - FANTAGRAPHICS - MARVEL & FANTAGRAPHICS PRSNT ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY

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The ultimate Marvel team-up! Fantagraphics' new Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, presenting classic comics from the pre-Marvel Atlas era, began in the Fall of 2023 and continues in 2024, as evidenced in this 32-page showcase of primo pre-Code gems from the House of Ideas. Included stories represent a range of genres from the series, including Adventures Into Terror and Venus. Included are Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's satire on anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham, 'The Raving Maniac'; Gene Colan's horror story 'The Clock Strikes'; Basil Wolverton's horror story 'Where Monsters Dwell'; Maneely's gritty war story 'Rain'; Maneely's Hank Ketcham parody, 'Pascal the Rascal'; and Bill Everett's romantic horror story 'The Kiss of Death,' starring Atlas heroine Venus. Reprint Material Rating: Teen

(W/A) Joe Maneely & Various (CA) Bill Everett

FCBD 2024 - FANTAGRAPHICS - MARVEL & FANTAGRAPHICS PRSNT ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY

ordini entro il 07/01/2024

The ultimate Marvel team-up! Fantagraphics' new Atlas Library collaboration with Marvel, presenting classic comics from the pre-Marvel Atlas era, began in the Fall of 2023 and continues in 2024, as evidenced in this 32-page showcase of primo pre-Code gems from the House of Ideas. Included stories represent a range of genres from the series, including Adventures Into Terror and Venus. Included are Stan Lee and Joe Maneely's satire on anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham, 'The Raving Maniac'; Gene Colan's horror story 'The Clock Strikes'; Basil Wolverton's horror story 'Where Monsters Dwell'; Maneely's gritty war story 'Rain'; Maneely's Hank Ketcham parody, 'Pascal the Rascal'; and Bill Everett's romantic horror story 'The Kiss of Death,' starring Atlas heroine Venus. Reprint Material Rating: Teen

(W/A) Joe Maneely & Various (CA) Bill Everett

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