My Time Machine: A Graphic Novel - Hardcover

Lay, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1683969987 ISBN 13: 9781683969983

Verlag: Fantagraphics, 2024

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“When I came to, I had that ‘Where am I?' feeling.“Only it was more like, ‘When am I?’”Trapped in a glitchy time machine at the end of the world, a strange creature banging unnervingly at the door, what else is an exhausted amateur time traveler to do but sit back and play her concertina?Having inherited the blueprints designed by the Time Traveler of H.G. Wells’ historical account, our curious and all-too-human adventurer enlists her genius ex-husband to construct a modern version of the time machine. Torn between wanting to fix the past and needing to know what lies ahead, she decides to see how our follies will play out in order to bring back information that might help save civilization from itself. She anticipates trouble, but it’s far worse — not only has humanity failed to mitigate climate change, but by 2035 the world has succumbed to fascism. Then, by 2045, it has devolved to anarchy. Intrigued by the possibilities detailed in Wells’ book, she decides to visit the year 802,701 to verify the original Traveler’s tale. In that inexplicably lush land she encounters enemies that propel her to the earth’s last, hellish days.My Time Machine

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Carol Lay graduated from UCLA with a B.F.A. in Fine Arts, but when a friend gave her a crash course in comics, she found her calling. Her first independent comics series, the critically acclaimed Good Girls, appeared in 1987 from Fantagraphics. She also drew commercially for Mattel; did storyboards for rock videos, feature films and commercials, later working part-time as an animation storyboard artist on several shows. In 1990, she started a weekly strip in the L.A. Weekly, Story Minute. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including Wimmen's Comix and Simpsons Comics. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Mad Magazine, and others.

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My Time Machine unfolds across the socially and
politically confused landscape of early 2020, where
Carol Lay’s middle-aged female protagonist (who
bears a suspicious resemblance to the author)
embarks on a time-hopping odyssey that takes
her from the addled and anxious “contemporary”
America to the farthest reaches of time.
Finding the blueprints belonging to the eponymous Time Traveler
of H.G. Wells’ novel, our reluctant and all-too-human heroine
enlists her ex-husband Rob’s engineering genius in constructing
the same kind of machine capable of the same awesome power.
With a (more or less) functioning time machine at her disposal,
she decides there’s no better time to do her part to save humanity
from itself and starts looking for (figurative) butterflies to pin down
in hopes of altering the history of human civilization and averting
the impending effects of climate change.
Wary of causing unintended consequences by traveling into the
past to change history, she heads into the future, alone, to see if she
can gain any insights she can bring back to 2020 that could help change
the course of a world suffering from the reckless consequence of the
Anthropocene. She anticipates the worst, but that’s not quite bad
enough: Not only is there the ecological collapse she feared, but by
2035, America has devolved into a fascist state and by 2060 to full
blown totalitarianism. It appears environmental havoc is ineluctably
accompanied by political disaster.
My Time Machine is both a sly, cautionary political satire and a
rollicking time travel story, full of playful time travel paradoxes, edgeof-
your-seat suspense, breezy badinage, and a deeply felt wonder at
the universe. It is serious and funny, timely and timeless (literally).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fantagraphics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1683969987
• ISBN 13: 9781683969983
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158
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