Heads Or Tails (Paperback)
$17.95 - Save $5.04 21% off - RRP $22.99 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Heads Or Tails This is an anthology of short comics fiction, previously appearing in books such as Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Full description- Publisher: Fantagraphics
- Published: 15 November 2012
- Format: Paperback 180 pages
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- Categories: Graphic Novels, Anime & Manga | Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs
- ISBN 13: 9781606995976 ISBN 10: 1606995979
- Sales rank: 117,917
Full description for Heads Or Tails
The creator of 2008's acclaimed graphic novel The Lagoon -- named to many annual critics' lists including Publishers Weekly and USA Today's Pop Candy -- is back with a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction being produced in comics today. Carr 's elegant short stories read like the gothic, family narratives of Flannery O'Connor or Carson McCullers, but told visually. Poetic rhythms -- a coin flip, a circling ferris wheel -- are punctuated by elements of melancholy fantasy pushed forward by character-driven, naturalistic dialogue. The stories in Heads Or Tails display a virtuosic breadth of visual styles and color palettes, each in perfect service of the story, and range from experimental one-pagers to short masterpieces like "The Thing About Madeline" (featured in The Best American Comics 2008), to graphic novellas like "The Carnival" (featured in David Sedaris' and Dave Eggers' 2010 Best American Nonrequired Reading, originally published in MOME).
