The Grot
The Story of the Swamp City Grifters
Seiten
2020
Top Shelf Productions (Verlag)
978-1-60309-466-5 (ISBN)
Top Shelf Productions (Verlag)
978-1-60309-466-5 (ISBN)
Penn and Lipton Wise have set out to Falter City to
make their fortune. It's the future, obviously, and things are pretty grim. The
Australian landscape is traumatized. Plague is rampant. Machines only work as
well as the poor sod pedaling them. Things are hotter and wetter than they used
to be, giving the whole place the vibe of a sweaty armpit.
Lippy and
Penn are hoping to set up shop in this grimy boom-town, but they've got to stay
frosty, because it's teeming with hustlers, swindlers, and scoundrels. It's the
sort of place where a lucky moron could make an outrageous fortune in an
afternoon and lose it all before bedtime. The sort of place where two
enterprising teenagers could really make something of themselves. Or so they
say.
In his
follow-up to the critically acclaimed Blue, Pat Grant confirms his reputation as
"the Australian Mark Twain" (Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi) with
a page-turning graphic novel about economic inequality, desperation, and the
gambler's addiction to hope even in the worst of times.
make their fortune. It's the future, obviously, and things are pretty grim. The
Australian landscape is traumatized. Plague is rampant. Machines only work as
well as the poor sod pedaling them. Things are hotter and wetter than they used
to be, giving the whole place the vibe of a sweaty armpit.
Lippy and
Penn are hoping to set up shop in this grimy boom-town, but they've got to stay
frosty, because it's teeming with hustlers, swindlers, and scoundrels. It's the
sort of place where a lucky moron could make an outrageous fortune in an
afternoon and lose it all before bedtime. The sort of place where two
enterprising teenagers could really make something of themselves. Or so they
say.
In his
follow-up to the critically acclaimed Blue, Pat Grant confirms his reputation as
"the Australian Mark Twain" (Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi) with
a page-turning graphic novel about economic inequality, desperation, and the
gambler's addiction to hope even in the worst of times.
Pat Grant is a renowned cartoonist from Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, and The Lifted Brow, as well as in magazines such as Artlink, Australia's Surfing Life, and Tracks -- but all of the best stuff comes out in his zine called Lumpen. He is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. His other comics include "The Last Sharehouse" and "Waiting for Something to Happen." His first graphic novel, Blue, was listed as one of the great graphic novels of 2012 by the US culture journal Salon.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.07.2020 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic |
| Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction | |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror | |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60309-466-0 / 1603094660 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60309-466-5 / 9781603094665 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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