The Crystal Ballroom

Hardback (01 Sep 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

One of the most respected and accomplished comic artists of his generation, Frank Thorne departed from mainstream comics to become one of the most preeminent erotic artists of his time. The sequel to his first autobiography, The Crystal Ballroom is by turns an expression of postwar exuberance and bittersweet rite of passage, copiously illustrated with over 80 exquisite pencil drawings, making this the most moving and eloquent memoir by a cartoonist ever written.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn't know existed or wouldn't touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN:	9781560975458
Publisher:	Fantagraphics
Imprint:	Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:	01 Sep 2003
DEWEY:	741.5
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	96
Weight:	722g
Height:	224mm
Width:	280mm
Spine width:	17mm