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Pear Shape

Brief Description
From the pen of multi-talented indie musician (Islands, Unicorns) and cartoonist (Penguins) Nick Thorburn comes this perfect object of the comic book form. A 64-page color one-shot menagerie of interconnected comic strips that smartly channels the tradition of underground comix. Find out why those smarty pants... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$4000

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A good old fashioned underground comic for our current times: a heady bouillabaisse of humor, philosophy, profanity, absurdism, and existentialism.

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From the pen of multi-talented indie musician (Islands, Unicorns) and cartoonist (Penguins) Nick Thorburn comes this perfect object of the comic book form. A 64-page color one-shot menagerie of interconnected comic strips that smartly channels the tradition of underground comix.

Find out why those smarty pants at The Believer magazine say, "Thorburn makes sharp social commentary through a series of dark humour vignettes that revolve around macabre body horror, dalliances into the absurd, and the sociopolitical intricacies of human existence."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798875002823

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 177g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Nick Thorburn is a Canadian musician (Islands, Unicorns), composer (the themes for Serial and The Paper), cartoonist (the graphic novel Penguins), and sometimes actor. He lives in Los Angeles.

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