Beverly

Nick Drnaso (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

136 Seiten

2016
Drawn and Quarterly (Verlag)
978-1-77046-225-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway-flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized facade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality. Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new-and yet familiar-about the world in which we live.

Autor

Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, IL. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and co-edited the second and third issue of Linework, Columbia College's annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: colour illustrations throughout
• Verlagsort: Montreal
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 241 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
• ISBN-10: 1-77046-225-2 / 1770462252
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77046-225-0 / 9781770462250
• Zustand: Neuware