BALONEY GN

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BALONEY GN
DRAWN & QUARTERLY
(W/A/CA) Pascal Blanchet
by Pascal Blanchet
Following White Rapids – named Best Comic of 2007 by The Onion – Pascal Blanchet brings us Baloney. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and ’40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia’s great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red-and-black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Baloney as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich – a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant utility rates.

Item Code
NOV084024
Stock #
STK384076
ISBN-13/EAN
9781897299661
Discount Code
F
DCD P.O. Minimum
20
Price Before Discount
$16.95
PREVIEWS Consumer Price
$16.95
PREVIEWS Page #
269
Category Code
3
Genre Code
RB
Brand Code
XX
Item Status
In Stock
Stock Status
LOW
Est Ship Date
12/31/2008
Date Shipped
12/31/2008
Product Dimension
6×8
Cover
S
Pages
80
Color
PC