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| “Frame by frame, his work is more varied in every way than that of most other comics artists, yet he unfailingly maintains narrative momentum by carrying over details from one panel to the next, no matter how altered the angle of vision. Brilliant.” —Booklist |
"Nate Powell's Tiny Giants heralds the arrival of a fresh talent on the increasingly sophisticated American comics scene. With a wisdom belying his years, Powell explores, in meticulous black-and-white, those all-too-gray questions most people choose to ignore."
—Diana Schutz, Senior Editor, Dark Horse Comics |
| “This Nate Powell wittily, even surgically, cuts to the bone. Observant, intimate cartooning, anchored with a nice, punchy use of black. Good comics.” —Frank Miller | |
| Paper | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | 78 pgs. | ISBN: 1-932360-37-9 | List: $7.95 | 07/1/2004 |
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About the book: It Disappears opens with snow falling: a few large white dots against of a background of black. The drawings close in on a house, well-banked by snow, a boy sitting on a couch. The boy begins a journey, his hand placed on a doorknob. After he leaves the house he begins to grow older. In the mountains one night the smoke from his fire announces "you're here." The smoke chases and catches him. A cartoon animal emerges from the gloom. "It's really not safe here," it says.
The boy travels with the animal. It has many things to say. "I have a friend who only reads periodicals. He subscribes to 28 titles each month and hasn't read a book in three years. He feels so overwhelmed by the allure of modernity, like he'll miss what's just happening right now. And now. And now."
A rhapsody on memory and the anticipation of the future dissolving into the receding waters of the past, Powell's graphic novel traces a journey of self-discovery and the uneasy realization that everything, eventually, disappears. However, underlying this realization is an almost cosmic hope that human interaction and history can transcend the corrosive effects of time.
About the author: Nate Powell has been in the business of self-publishing for a long time. He received the Outstanding Cartooning Award for School of Visual Arts, NYC, Class of 2000. He plays in the popular punk band Soophie Nun Squad. It Disappears is his second book.
This author is on tour: 10 city author tour (Portland, ME, Amherst, MA, Boston, Providence, RI, New York, Philadelphia, DC, RIchmond, VA, Little Rock Arkansas)
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