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KINGS IN DISGUISE: A NOVEL
Vance, James; Burr, Dan E.
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Description for KINGS IN DISGUISE: A NOVEL
paperback. "One of the most moving and compelling human stories to emerge out of the graphic story medium."-Alan Moore Num Pages: 208 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 508.
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving Freddie Bloch is trading his father's liquor bottles for the cost a matinee: "Dreams were only a dime, but empty bottles [only] brought a penny apiece." When his father disappears and his brother gets arrested, Freddie finds himself homeless and adrift, trying to survive during the Detroit ... Read more
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving Freddie Bloch is trading his father's liquor bottles for the cost a matinee: "Dreams were only a dime, but empty bottles [only] brought a penny apiece." When his father disappears and his brother gets arrested, Freddie finds himself homeless and adrift, trying to survive during the Detroit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393328486
SKU
V9780393328486
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About Vance, James; Burr, Dan E.
James Vance (1953—2017) was an American comic book writer and author of the graphic novels Kings in Disguise and On the Ropes. Dan E. Burr has been an illustrator for DC Comics’s Big Book Series. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Alan Moore is a magician and performer, and is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the ... Read more
Reviews for KINGS IN DISGUISE: A NOVEL
"Utterly masterful."
Ron Evry - Fantagraphics Best Comics of All Time "Wonderful, earnest storytelling . . . a book made by intelligent, caring human hands."
Art Spiegelman "The best case yet that a mainstream novel can be told in comics form."
Max Allan Collins, writer of Dick Tracy
Ron Evry - Fantagraphics Best Comics of All Time "Wonderful, earnest storytelling . . . a book made by intelligent, caring human hands."
Art Spiegelman "The best case yet that a mainstream novel can be told in comics form."
Max Allan Collins, writer of Dick Tracy