Epileptic. Book 1

Epileptic. Book 1

Paperback (01 Dec 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The most acclaimed European graphic novel of the last ten years, finally available in English, is author David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy - which turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author's part, as he delves into his own complex emotions and his family's troubled history, as well as his own youthful fantasy life. Winner of the French national cartooning award 'Alph'Art', this spare but elegant portrayal is particularly pointed in its description of the family's journey from one attempted cure to another. B/w throughout

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

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: 9782844140852
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 662g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 18mm