Hypnotwist (Graphic Novel)

Hypnotwist (Graphic Novel)
Gilbert Hernandez
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Hardback
h217 x 152mm - 96pg
11 Feb 2021 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9781683962045
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In the Eisner Award-winning wordless comic (silent movie? ) "Hypnotwist," Hernandez' s B-movie star Fritz plays a character who doesn' t seem to be going anywhere, until she puts on a pair of glittery pumps. Her wanderings become increasingly surreal as she confronts motherhood, alcoholism, a sinister smiley face, cruelty, and her worst fate: "Killer" cameos! Includes 16 pages of previously unpublished, additional material. "Scarlet by Starlight" is a B movie that' s? Star Trek? meets? Heart of Darkness. "Scientists," or colonizers, are doing research, surrounded by "primitive" fauna they affectionately nickname or treat like pests. Fritz plays Scarlet, a peaceful, catlike humanoid with a mate and children. When she becomes infatuated with one of the scientists, the fragile web of relationships explodes into violence and death, calling into question who the "advanced, civilized" creatures really are. The two graphic novellas that comprise the book will be published? as a "flip book" with two covers, so the two stories each end in the middle of the book (with the one you' re not reading being upside down). ? This very cool, handsome "Double Feature" package will be an essential item for Love and Rockets completists!
Hernandez has become the medium' s David Lynch or Guy Maddin, rolling his personal obsessions and freewheeling abstractions into stories that present as pulp, then take some very weird turns. --The A. V. Club Hernandez is one of the great craftsmen of modern comics. --New York Times Book Review Pulp fiction and midnight movies, memory and obsession, and mysterious, alluring, impossibly top-heavy ladies. [This volume] boasts an intensity that makes it hard to put down--and almost anything from Hernandez is worth a look. --Publishers Weekly
Gilbert Hernandez is considered one of our greatest living cartoonists. He co-created the iconic series Love and Rockets, which has been ongoing since 1982, and authored numerous other comics and graphic novels, one of the greatest bodies of work the medium has ever seen. Raised in Oxnard, CA, Hernandez lives with his family in Las Vegas, NV.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781683962045
Published: 11 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Height: 217mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 96

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