The Green Hand and Other Stories
New York : New York Review Comics, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: 100 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
"Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through, lands in which the very air seems alive and capable of telling you a dirty joke (or the meaning of life). In the title story, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance--complete with talking shrubbery, infantile gourmands, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This new selection is the perfect introduction to the work of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: New York Review comics.
Other Authors:
Zha, Édith, author.
Clowes, Daniel, writer of introduction.
Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.
Harbin, Dustin, letterer.
Zha, Édith, author.
Clowes, Daniel, writer of introduction.
Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.
Harbin, Dustin, letterer.
Contents:
The green hand. The green hand ; The black grass ; The white night ; Blue funk ; Purple sideshows / written by Edith Zha -- No family! -- The little vegetable who dreamed he was a panther -- The ninny and her prince charming -- Stupistory number 1 -- A little girl always in a dream -- The tale of Blondie, Dearest Doe, and Fat Kitty Cat -- Underground chatter.
Subjects:
Dreams -- Comic books, strips, etc.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Literary.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Contemporary Women.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Fantasy.
Dreams -- Comic books, strips, etc.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Literary.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Contemporary Women.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Fantasy.
ISBN:
9781681371078
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GN Green Claveloux | Wheatley (Shandon) | Graphic Novel | In |
"The green hand published in French as La main verte by Les Humanoïds Associés (1978); "No family!" published in French in Métal hurlant number 45, October 1979; all other stories published in French in Le petit légume qui rêvait d'être une panthère et autres récits by Les Humanoïds Associés (1980)"--Title page verso.
Includes interview with the authors.
Translated from the French.
Includes interview with the authors.
Translated from the French.