Sounds of Your Name (Comix Journalism)
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934620793 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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wiredweird said Lyrical and enigmatic. Nate Powell creates some of the most incredible comics I've ever encountered. The visual style shifts almost as quickly as the teenaged characters' moods, but never becomes random or incoherent. Some lines flow like Jules Feiffer's scrawl, others jolt down the page in angular tracks that remind me of Sam Keith. Some pages feel light and breezy; other times, broad, dense blacks make even night air feel as dense as a tombstone.A comic really stands on its writing, though,. An avant-garde collection especially recommended for anyone interested in taking the pulse of the underground comix scene. Sounds of your Name is a graphic novel anthology of black-and-white zine and comic stories by punk band player Nate Powell. Featuring dark, gritty artwork, dialogue that turns on a dime from casual to deadly serious, and sequences that are likewise drift from day-in-the-life to tense to shockingly explosive, the stories in Sounds of Your Name captivate with underground fervor. From the hard life of an alley cat who longs for the comforts of domesticity, to the simultane. An illustrator before a writer I don't know how or if Nate Powell matures as a writer in his later work, because I have only read this collection, which contains his early stuff. I loved the black and white art and think he's a very talented illustrator; I thought the writing was mediocre. Here's a sample:The rays' eyes were just like the fishers'--all sunken in and sad, like slippery little basset hounds panicking in the August sun. They soon died and simply enough, I watched their little skins bake
Nate Powell (March, Swallow Me Whole, Soophie Nun Squad, Any Empire) recently won the Eisner for "best original graphic novel" and was the first graphic novel nominated for the LA Times book award since Art Spiegelman's Maus! His intricate black and white art focuses on the terrors and pleasures of growing up. Folks who pick this book up can request a (limited to 200) signed and numbered print for the story Autopilot.. This book collects his self published zines and comics dating back to 1992, his first two graphic novels (Tiny Giants and It Disappears), and new work. Powell's work is a reminder of the persistence of wonder against all odds. Poignantly plumbing the existential angst of youth, he invokes great coming-of-age novels with only a few dozen words. These stories build vignette by vignette into a rich tableau of lofty dreams and Deep South disappointment, car crashes and love letters, first kisses and four-tracks
Kennedy Book Award, an Eisner Award, two Ignatz Awards, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels For Teens selections, and has been nominated for a total of eight Eisner Awards, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Glyph Comics Award. His work has received a Robert F. Nate Powell is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978. In 2011, Powell discussed his work
"This Nate Powell wittily, even surgically, cuts to the bone. Good comics." -Frank Miller, creator of Sin City"Powell's extraordinary artwork makes one feel, rather than read, what the book is about." - Booklist"If you're trying to get someone new into graphic novels this book may be just the thing you need. Someone who reads McSweeney's or subscribes to Harper's but has no graphic literature in their life will be bowled over by the beauty and grace of Powell's style. Observant, intimate cartooning, anchor