Escape from 'Special'

Escape from 'Special'

Paperback (22 Feb 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Miss Lasko's graphic novel debut is the story of Melissa. Willfull, funny and perceptive, Melissa unsentimentally questions religion, identity formation and treacherous female friendships' as she bounces from school to school. Drawn in b/w and washed in moody greys and blues, Miss Lasko-Gross's art exquisitely expresses the story's blend of humour (sometimes of the gross-out variety) and keenly observed insights. Miss Lasko-Gross has created a graphic novel that will appeal to a wide and varied audience.'

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: 9781560978046
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 136
Weight: 481g
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 20mm