NBM
MINGUS HC
(W) Flavio Massaruto (A) Squaz
Bass player and pianist, composer and band leader, Charles Mingus is universally recognized as one of the greatest musicians in the history of jazz. An overflowing talent, who experienced the last fires of the swing age, the Be Bop revolution, the experimental seasons of Third Stream and Jazz Poetry up to Free Jazz. But he was also a tormented and angry soul, a man who, due to his mestizo origins, always had to deal with the hostility of American society. Journalist Flavio Massarutto and artist Squaz (Pasquale Todisco) retrace the stages of Mingus's journey, giving life to a non-canonical biography, which proceeds in paginated episodes like a succession of passages that form a musical suite: fragments of existence told by fishing from interviews, writings, testimonies and historical facts. The portrait of a musician who is the mirror of an era comes out, of a brilliant composer who was also one of the most clearly committed artists in denouncing racism, with real manifesto pieces such as the famous Fable of Faubus denouncing the segregationist governor of Arkansas. (STL276334) (C: 0-1-0)
HC, 7x10, 160pgs, FC SRP: $29.99
ALFRED HITCHCOCK MASTER OF SUSPENSE HC (O/A)
(W) Noel Simsolo (A) Dominique He
In 1960, the film Psycho traumatized viewers around the world. Never before had the angst or the suspense been so well presented in cinema. But where does the talent of this Alfred Hitchcock come from, the one now nicknamed the 'Master of Suspense'? To find out, we must first go back to his youth, in England, during the first half of the 20th century. Having grown up in a Catholic family�a religious originality that will be felt in a large part of his cinema�'Hitch' is an atypical Englishman who, very early on, has a taste for telling stories. The temptation to work for the cinema will not be long in coming, first as a graphic designer at Islington Studios in London where his visual talent will lead him to make his debut behind the camera, as an assistant and then as a full director. It is also here that he will meet Alma Reville, his assistant and wife who will accompany him throughout his storied career, including the jump to the big time in Hollywood. Discover the life of undoubtedly one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. (STL217511) (JAN221546)
HC, 8x10, 320pgs, B&W SRP: $44.99
DJANGO HAND ON FIRE GREAT DJANGO REINHARDT HC (O/A)
(W) Salva Rubio (A) Efa
Django Reinhardt is a legend. But Django � which may have meant 'I awake' � was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in Liberchies, Belgium. The second in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in the fall of 1928, when a fire in his caravan mutilated his left hand. This biogrpahy devoted to the youth of the prodigy musician features the passion and determination of the man who has always considered himself the greatest guitarist in the world. In this story-score, by laying out the panels like chords, the artist brings to life his passion in vibrating watercolor to better accompany the musical and technical development of the inventor of gypsy jazz. (STL210896)
HC, 9x12, 88pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
PHOOLAN DEVI REBEL QUEEN HC GN (O/A)
(W/A) Claire Fauvel
Phoolan Devi rebelled against the ancient tribal rules of India, her country, resulting in her becoming a Robin Hood type bandit. Essentially sold at the age of 11 to become a wife for a much older man, she ran away when he raped her. From that point on, there were few choices for her but to join a roaming gang of bandits, her ambition leading her to become their rebel chief. Ultimately, society caught up with her and she even became a strong voice for change as a representative in the nascent Indian parliament. (STL147590) (JAN201889)
HC, 8x11, 224pgs, FC SRP: $34.99
THOREAU A SUBLIME LIFE HC (O/A)
(W/A) Dan A., Maximilien Le Roy
'To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.' This graphic novel biography relates the forward looking inspirational life of the great author, philosopher and pioneering ecologist. Henry David Thoreau was also the father of the concept, still fresh today (see all the recent protests), of 'civil disobedience' which he used against slavery and the encroachment of government. (STK698230) (JAN161569)
HC, 9x11, 88pgs, FC SRP: $19.99
NEW YORK REVIEW COMICS
PITTSBURGH HC
(W/A) Frank Santoro
Pittsburgh is the story of a family, and a city. Frank Santoro faces a straightforward yet heart-rending reality: His parents, once high-school sweethearts, now never speak to each other�despite working in the same building. Stuck in the middle, he tries to understand. The result is this book. Using markers, pencils, scissors, and tape, with a variety of papers, drawing in vivid colors and exuberant lines, Santoro constructs a multi-generational retelling of their lives. Framed by his parents' courtship and marriage, and set amid the vital but fading neighborhood streets, the pages of Pittsburgh are filled with details both quotidian and dramatic�from his childhood mishaps to his father's trauma in Vietnam�interspersed throughout with the mute witness of the family dog, Pretzel. Pittsburgh is an extraordinary reimagining of the comics form to depict the processes of memory, and a powerful, searching account of a family taking shape, falling apart, and struggling to reinvent itself, as the city around them does the same. (STL277415) (C: 0-1-1)
HC, 8x11, 224pgs, FC SRP: $29.95
NOBROW - FLYING EYE BOOKS
MASON MOONEY GN #0 SUPERNATURAL SLEUTH
(W/A) Seaerra Miller
Your favorite paranormal investigator is back, with yet another adventure that is sure to have you glued to your seat. No, it�s not dreamboat Trent Reilly and his Paranormal Society, it�s Mason Mooney!�Mason and his best friend Iris are on a mission to recover his missing heart and stop Talitha from causing even more mayhem in Grimbrook. To do so they�ve got to enlist the help of the mysterious Order of the Emerald Palm... and enter another dimension! But when Iris is sucked away into a wormhole, Mason must decide what�s more important: being the best paranormal investigator in the world or saving his friend. (STL277331) (C: 0-1-0)
SC, 8x11, 72pgs, FC SRP: $13.99
86th Floor Comics June 2023 Catalogue
