The Late Child and Other Animals

The Late Child and Other Animals

Hardback (22 Jan 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has died in action. The pair were in the process of adopting a daughter; now Hetty must see through the process alone. A decade later she gives birth to an unexpected child, Margeurite, and must face a tribunal to prove she is fit to be a mother. From there, The Late Child tells the story of mother and daughter, a generational autobiography written by legendary punk diva and award-winning poet Marguerite Van Cook and adapted by Eisner winner James Romberger.

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: 9781606997895
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 174
Weight: 948g
Height: 300mm
Width: 203mm
Spine width: 19mm