Big Kids (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
120
Utgivningsdatum
2015-12-17
Förlag
Drawn and Quarterly
Illustratör/Fotograf
colour illustrations throughout
Illustrationer
colour illustrations throughout
Dimensioner
156 x 127 x 16 mm
Vikt
204 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781770462243

Big Kids

Teenaged Misfits and Adolescent Rabble-Rousing Take Center Stage in This Dark Coming of Age Tale

av Michael Deforge
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-12-17
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Big Kids is simultaneously Michael DeForge's most straightforward narrative and his most complex work to date. It follows a troubled teenage boy through the transformative years of high school, as he redefines his friends, his interests, and his life path. When the boy's uncle, a police officer, gets kicked out of the family's basement apartment and transferred to the countryside, April moves in. She's a college student: mysterious and cool, she quickly takes a shine to the boy. The boy's own interests quickly fade away: he stops engaging in casual sex, taking drugs, and testing the limits of socially acceptable (and legal) behaviour. Instead, April and the boy hang out with her friends, a bunch of highly evolved big kids who spend their days at the campus swimming pool. And slowly, the boy begins to change, too. Eerie and perfectly paced, Michael DeForge's Big Kids muses on the complicated, and often contradictory, feelings people struggle with in adolescence, the choices we make to fit in, and the ways we survive times of change. Like Ant Colony and First Year Healthy, Big Kids is a testimony to the harshness and beauty of being alive.
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"Big Kids is a bildungsroman of sorts; the story of a troubled teenage boy navigating the transformative years of high school, redefining his friends, interests, and life path. Anybody with a passing familiarity with DeForge's unsettling, vividly beautiful comics will know that this is a deceptively simple summation."--Zainab Akhtar, The Guardian "In the world of comics, there's no shortage of narratives about adolescence. But you've probably never read one as memorably surreal as Michael DeForge's Big Kids."--Abraham Riesman, Vulture "Michael DeForge's Big Kids comic is a transcendental heartbreaker."-- The Fader "... an outstanding work by one of the most original voices in comics today.--Pete Redrup, The Quietus "Big Kids is a revelation and DeForge's art is an unsettling, uncompromising and highly refreshing addition to the comics landscape."--Mark Sinclair, The Creative Review "... a book that is bursting with complex ideas and fragile emotions"--Craig Hubert, Artinfo

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Michael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success, having been nominated for, or won, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His illustrations have been published in the New York Times and Bloomberg View; his comics have appeared in the Believer, Maisonneuve, and the Adventure Time comic book series.

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