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Creators: Pascal Blanchet (Author)
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN: 9781897299661
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80 pages
On Sale Date: 2/28/2009
Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 8.75 in, 8.8 ounces
A TALE IN THREE SYMPHONICACTS
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.
Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages, and soaring solos. 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 Russias 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
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