The brilliant graphic novel behind the major new film starring Gemma Aterton ( Quantum of Solace ), Jason Flemyng ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ), Fabrice Luchini ( In the House ) and Mel Raido ( Spooks ) Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. Gemma''s sudden windfall and distaste for London take them across the Channel to Normandy, where the charms of French country living soon wear off. Is it a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert''s notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed? These questions consume Gemma''s neighbour, the intellectual baker, Joubert. Denying voyeurism, but nevertheless noting every change in the fit of her jeans, every addition to Gemma''s wardrobe, her love-bites and lovers, Joubert, with the help of the heroine''s diaries, follows her path towards ruin. Adultery and its consequences. Disappointment and deception. The English in France. Fat and slim. Then and now.
In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour.
The nine-issue comics series won a l996 American Book Award. It is now published for the first time in one volume, befitting its status as one of the great classics of graphic non-fiction.
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.
Tamara Drewe, son nez refait, ses jambes sans fin et ses airs de princesse sexuelle.
La chroniqueuse trash revient semer panique et confusion à Ewedown, le village à la Gainsborough où une population rurale rêvant de la ville cohabite avec une colonie d'exilés bobos acharnés à faire revivre une campagne fantasmée.
Ben, Andy et Nicholas, le triangle de mâles en chasse se reforme autour de la belle amazone, sous l'oeil toujours concupiscent de Glen, l'universitaire obèse en panne d'inspiration, et celui, douloureusement humain, de Beth, la bonne fée de Stonefield, retraite pour écrivains surmenés.
Casey et Jody, les adolescentes locales, abreuvées de presse people, hypnotisées par la foire aux vanités londonienne, sont là aussi. Le tout prend force et vie sous la caméra du maître du cinéma britannique Stephen Frears. L'homme qui nous fit découvrir Hanif Kureishi, relire les Liaisons Dangereuses, regarder the Queen d'un autre oeil, se risque à l'adaptation d'un graphic novel.
2012. Jack Barlow retrouve à son domicile Patience, sa petite amie enceinte, assassinée.
2029. Toujours hanté par le meurtre de Patience, Jack Barlow entend parler d'un homme qui aurait inventé une machine à remonter le temps.
À la page suivante, Jack se retrouve propulsé en 2006, observant Patience pendant ses rendez-vous galants avec différents hommes. Et si l'un d'eux était le meurtrier ?
A travers 14 livres/objets dans un coffret, suivez la vie et les questionnements existentiels d'une jeune trentenaire cherchant l'âme soeur, d'un vieux couple qui ne peut plus se supporter, et d'une vieille demoiselle propriétaire de cet immeuble de Chicago dans lequel tout ce petit monde habite.
Sans début ni fin, "Building Stories" est un ouvrage à l'ambition artistique et émotionnelle inédite qui pose l'éternelle question : est-il préférable de vivre seul ou à deux ?
En conjuguant au sein d'un même récit les pistes explorées auparavant dans Comme un gant de velours et Ghost World, Daniel Clowes aboutit quinze ans de recherche et nous offre le livre de la maturité. Mêlant observation pointue des sentiments et ambiances à la limite du fantastique, il dresse un époustouflant portrait de l'adolescence en quête d'identité et signe son chef-d'oeuvre. Publié dans son pays par un éditeur de littérature au même titre que les ouvrages d'écrivains contemporains, ce livre a été salué par la critique comme la preuve ( enfin ! ) que la bande dessinée était une écriture à part entière.
Avec Wilson, Clowes revisite sa thématique fétiche, à savoir la médiocrité humaine, la portant à un nouveau degré d'excellence.
Clowes nous offre une tranche de pessimisme brillamment découpée et magnifiquement dessinée. À l'heure où les bons sentiments sont légions, il fait bon de lire ce chef-d'oeuvre remarquable de misanthropie.
Daniel Clowes est né à Chicago où, un jour de 1924, deux étudiants assassinèrent par ennui leur jeune voisin, et le souvenir de Leopold et Loeb hante les pages de Ice haven. Cet album raconte comment la disparition d'un petit garçon bouleverse la routine d'une bourgade du Midwest, repliée sur ellemême, et met à jour la solitude et la frustration de ses habitants. L'auteur de David Boring marche ici sur les traces d'Edward Hopper ou de Charles Schultz et cartographie la terrible mélancolie du quotidien. Derrière l'ironie transparaît une empathie profonde pour les prisonniers de Ice Haven, qui ne cessent de se heurter aux barreaux de leur cage en cherchant aveuglément une issue à leurs rêves.
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. This work explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.
Dans son univers parallèle, Doug travaille comme agent de nettoyage dans les souterrains de la Ruche, essayant d'ignorer les cris, lisant des livres aux éleveurs. A mesure que l'histoire se déroule, de cadre en cadre, les souvenirs lui reviennent et le replongent dans sa vie réelle. Et c'est là qu'est le vrai cauchemar. Dans la plus pure veine graphique de Burns, cette nouvelle création d'un des artistes les plus passionnants de la bande dessinée est effroyablement captivante.
In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never know whether Neven is telling the truth.
Fable jubilatoire à propos d'un collectionneur de comics à la morale douteuse, Wimbledon Green s'amuse de l'industrie de la bande dessinée en même temps qu'il rend hommage aux bons vieux comic books d'autrefois. C'est plein de gags, de rires et de mystère.
The long strange trip of Doug reaches its mind-bending, heartbreaking end, but not before he is forced to deal with the lie he's been telling himself since the beginning. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality.
Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians, from Germany and Japan in World War II to Libya in 1986; 'More Women, More Children, More Quickly' is written from a victim's perspective, as Sacco illustrates his mother's harrowing experiences during Italian and German WWII raids on Malta; and 'How I Loved the War', Defeatist's centrepiece, is Sacco's impassioned but sardonic reflection on the Gulf War, and the surrounding propaganda and media circus. Published during the reign of Bush I, it has since acquired an even sharper relevance.
Defeatist also features Sacco's first (relatively) long-form piece, 'In the Company of Long Hair', a hilarious roadie's-eye view of an American punk band's eventful European tour from Amsterdam to Madrid, as well as 'Cartoon Genius', 'Voyage to the End of the Library', 'A Disgusting Experience', and 'On My Day Off', a cycle of funny and rueful autobiographic comics that display Sacco's graphic verve to its fullest extent.
Defeatist is rounded off with a large section of Sacco's earliest, pointedly satirical strips (none of which has been collected in book form before) and new introductions and notes by the author.
A combination of youthful indiscretions and mature masterworks, Notes from a Defeatist spotlights the work of a brilliant young artist as he defines the capabilities and potential of his chosen medium.
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years.
Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally 'cleansed' of its non-Serb population. But as much as Safe Area Gorazde is an account of a terrible siege, it presents a snapshot of people who were slowly letting themselves believe that a war was ending and that they had survived.
Since it was first published in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde has been recognized as one of the absolute classics of graphic non-fiction. We are delighted to publish it in the UK for the first time, to stand beside Joe Sacco's other books on the Cape list - Palestine, The Fixer and Notes from a Defeatist.
As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board, Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, meet the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, an ambitious young journalist, a psychiatrist who specializes in sex addiction and his Latina nurse by day, mistress by night.
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast.
But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly.
Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness.
