Is That All There Is? HC

By Joost Swarte

Book Overview

By appropriating and subverting Tintin creator Hergé'sclassic "clear line" style, Joost Swarte revitalized Europeanalternative comics in the 1970s with a series of satirical, musically elegant,supremely beautifully drawn short stories -- often featuring his innocent,magnificently-quiffed Jopo de Pojo , or his orotund scientist character,Anton Makassar. Under Swarte's own exacting supervision, Is That AllThere Is? will collect virtually all of his alternative comics work from1972 to date, including the Raw magazine stories that brought him fameamong American comics aficionados in the 1980s. Especially great pains will betaken to match Swarte's superb coloring, which includes stories executedin watercolor, comics printed in retro duotones, fiendishly clever use ofZip-a-Tone screens, and much more. (There's even a story about how tocolor comics art using those screens, with Makassar as the teacher.) Othernoteworthy stories include Swarte's take on an episode fromHergé's early days, a Fats Domino story, a tribute to the legendary"Upside-Downs" strip, and a story titled simply "ModernArt."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606995103
• ISBN13: 9781606995105
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.7" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher