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Monologues for the Coming Plague
by Anders Nilsen
ISBN: 1560977183
ISBN-13: 9781560977186
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published date: 2006
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 260
Publisher's Notes
The cartoonist for Big Questions whose work has appeared in a variety of prominent anthologies shares excerpts from his Automatic Writing sketchbooks in which stream of consciousness illustrations are presented with limited editing, in a volume that includes experimental and absurdist art comics, playful riffs on pop culture and current events, and sequential abstracts. Original.
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Fantagraphics Books. PAPERBACK. 1560977183 Brand new, direct from the publisher! . New. ( more information) Offered by COMICS NOW! INC. (United States)
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Fantagraphics. PAPERBACK. 1560977183 Brand new, direct from the publisher! . Fine. ( more information) Offered by COMICS NOW! INC. (United States)
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Fantagraphics Books. PAPERBACK. 1560977183 We sell only brand new merchandise! . New. ( more information) Offered by Robin Pugh's Nest of Treasures (United States)
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Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, Inc, 2006. paperback. New/No Jacket. Monologues for the Coming Plague is the longest and most ambitious work to date by Anders Nilsen, the talented young cartoonist who has appeared in a variety of prominent comics anthologies over the past few years as well as in his own self-published comic, Big Questions, and has emerged as one of the most critically acclaimed cartoonists of his generation. In 2003 Nilsen went on a signing tour with several other artists for the book Kramer's Ergot 4. The enthusiasm of his fellow artists for drawing in their sketchbooks proved infectious, and he decided to employ the same spontaneous method for a finished book. "I've always worked in sketchbooks", said Nilsen, "but I had lost the habit and my way of working had become very slow and deliberate. While waiting in the airport in New York, after the tour, I found myself absorbed in a series of one panel gags about a woman feeding a bird, brainstorming captions and watching ideas follow." Taking a cue from the school of Automatic Writing, an aesthetic mode championed by Andre Breton at the beginning of the 19th century that became the foundation of the Surrealist Movement, Nilsen began work on Monologues for the Coming Plague. The process is born out of a stream of consciousness followed by limited editing and rearranging. The book ranges playfully from riffs on the gag cartoon to paranoid soliloquies of a surrealistic apocalypse, with references to contemporary politics, pop culture, and religion, plays on language, and sequential abstractions. Stories intertwine, branch off, dead end and double back. These are experimental, absurdist art comics, but the book is a page-turner, and some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. Reading it is not so muchlike reading comics as it is watching the artist make connections between ideas, find patterns, and set down the story as it happens. It's a tour de force, beautifully and uniquely packaged, in black and white and color, by one of the most fascinating new cartoonists of the decade. ISBN: 9781560977186. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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FANTAGRAPHICS, 2006. Brand new. The cartoonist for Big Questions whose work has appeared in a variety of prominent anthologies shares excerpts from his Automatic Writing sketchbooks in which stream of consciousness illustrations are presented with limited editing, in a volume that inclu ( more information) Offered by A Green Hippo (United Kingdom)
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Fantagraphics Books. PAPERBACK. 1560977183 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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