A Book to Make Friends With

Name: A Book to Make Friends With
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SKU: 9781683965640
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By Lukas Verstraete

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A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete, encapsulates a unique journey through a vibrant, artistic landscape. The graphic novel delves into themes of companionship and self-exploration, encouraging readers to engage with the imaginative essence of visual storytelling. A captivating blend of whimsical illustration and narrative unfolds, inviting readers to immerse themselves in its rich, creative world.
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You might enjoy this graphic novel for its unique artistic style and unconventional storytelling that weaves together wit and imagination. If you appreciate visually stunning narratives that invite you into surreal worlds, this book could be a delightful and engaging read for you.

A dizzying, psychedelic and psychological journey of a man in search of himself, rendered in hyper-energetic, eye-popping colored pencils.

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Tick, tick, boom. Open the cover of this graphic novel to unleash a bombastic bomb blast of frenetic line work, a cacophony of vibrant colour, and an action-packed narrative that whirls and swirls in all directions like the furious, roaring winds of a mushroom cloud. Enter the blast radius of this conflagration of imagination and experience how brilliantly its creative fires burn.

A Book to Make Friends With marks the explosive English language debut of Flemish cartoonist Lukas Verstraete. What begins as a Pulp Fiction-inspired heist, in which two masked gangsters rob a passerby of his mysterious briefcase, soon snowballs into a psychedelic journey full of chase scenes, shapeshifting, soul possession, spiritual hallucinations, and unrequited romance. It all culminates in an epic, breathtakingly rendered battle between good and evil. At turns playful, philosophical, and kinetically riotous, you've never seen a graphic novel quite like this. Printed as an oversized hardcover edition encased in a luxurious slipcase, this book is as much a gorgeous aesthetic object as an engrossing work of fiction.

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A dynamic and imaginative crime story, A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete transforms into a surreal, metaphysical experience, celebrated for its vibrant and lush artistry. Verstraete's work is recognised as a contemporary reflection of the spirit and style of classic RAW artists, meriting the deluxe presentation by its publisher.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683965640

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 August 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 208 Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Laura Watkinson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 282.0mm

Height: 373.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 208

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Adult Graphic Novels Fiction Graphic Novels Lukas Verstraete

About the Author

Lukas Verstraete fills his graphic world with losers, antiheroes, cowboys, knights, grotesque women, and wretched maniacs. Drawing on a generous dose of naiveté, smuttiness, stereotypes, and humor, he tries to establish the meaning of life. In 2013, he was awarded the prize for Best Script at the Fumetto comics festival. Since 2018, he has been teaching at LUCA School of Arts Brussels in the Graphic Storytelling Studio. Laura Watkinson is an award-winning literary translator with a particular interest in the unusual and the mysterious. Laura has worked in England, Scotland, Germany, and Italy, and she now lives in a tall, thin house on a canal in Amsterdam with her husband, their cat, and lots of shelves of great graphic novels.