Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails

Graphic ed

Paperback (08 Nov 2012)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Hot on the heels of the tremendously well-received graphic novel The Lagoon comes Lilli Carre's latest work, Heads or Tails. She has produced a stunningly designed and packaged collection of some of the most poetic and confident short fiction stories being produced in comics today. Carre's elegant stories read like the gothic, family narratives of Flannery O'Connor or Carson McCullers, but they are told visually. Poetic rhythms - a coin flip, a circling ferris wheel - are punctuated by elements of melancholy fantasy pushed forward by character-driven dialogue.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606995976
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: Graphic ed
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 180
Weight: 640g
Height: 228mm
Width: 182mm
Spine width: 17mm