Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral FIRST EDITION

Woodruff, Thomas

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Fantagraphics Books Inc, Seattle, 2022

168396649X / 9781683966494

Serie: Buch 1 von 1 - Francis Rothbart!

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First Edition. Hardcover. 14 1/4" X 10 1/2". 292pp. Stated First Printing. Bound in color pictorial paper over boards. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of binding, with bumping to bottom edge of rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A very presentable first edition of this graphic opera from the acclaimed painter and illustrator Thomas Woodruff. This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A stunning, head-turning, "graphic opera" masterpiece from an acclaimed painter and illustrator. Francis Rothbart! follows a feral child who is raised by magpies and other creatures and is repeatedly struck by lightning. Because of the phenomena, the child develops eccentric talents, which he then abuses, leading to his ultimate destruction by the same natural world that once nurtured him. Written mostly in rhymed verse, Francis's picaresque saga unfolds in an allegorical environment, much like the topographical constructions behind renaissance religious paintings. Referencing both the Venetian landscapes of Bellini, Pierro di Cosimo and Carpaccio, mixed with the unlikely animated backdrops of Jay Ward and Chuck Jones, Woodruff's images recall the fictive gardens of a paradise lost that lingers somewhere deep in all our souls, moist and dark like the caves of the pious saints. Combining both paintings and drawings, each scene is a visual and verbal feast that transports us to a place in which trees anthropomorphize into figures bending from the weight of stalactite crowns, an iris becomes the gown for an oneiric sprite, and the sky rains down tears, as if mimicking the melancholy of a weeping willow. In a muted palette, Woodruff's carbon and white charcoal pencil drawings bring us ever closer to this mythical ecology. The artist lovingly focuses on every detail: ethereal, fragile blossoms, petals, roots, and leaves; impressively observed wildlife creatures; and each curve of the hand lettered text is rendered by the delicate hand of an illustrative obsessionist with a penchant for the poignant. Woodruff's images are multi-sourced amalgamations that echo with familiarity, portraying a world that is not only our own but also exists in the place of our half-remembered dreams. Thomas Woodruff's first graphic novel is a self-described "graphic opera" unlike anything ever created, a tour de force of words and images in harmony that will be one of the most talked-about books of the decade.(Publisher).

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Titel
Francis Rothbart!: The Tale of a Fastidious Feral FIRST EDITION
Autor
Woodruff, Thomas
Verlag
Fantagraphics Books Inc, Seattle
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2022
Zustand
Very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
168396649X
ISBN-13
9781683966494
Ausgabe
First Edition.
Serie
Buch 1 von 1: Francis Rothbart!
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