Strange Pictures

In a night of piratical treachery when an arrogant school teacher is accidentally shanghaied aboard the frigate Hand, his fate becomes inextricably fettered to that of a sardonic gangster. Dependent on one another for survival in their strange and dangerous new home, the two form an unlikely alliance as they alternately elude or confront the thieves and cutthroats that bad luck has made their companions and captors. After an act of terrible violence, the teacher is brought before the ship's captain and instructed to use his literary skills to aid him in writing his memoirs. He is to serve as scribe for a man who, in his remaining years, has made it his mission to commit as many acts of evil as possible in order to ensure that he meet his dead wife in hell. As the captain's protected confidant, finding his only comfort in the few books afforded him, the teacher bears witness to monstrous brutality, relentless cruelty, strange wisdom, and a journey of redemption through loss of faith. Chris Wright's Blacklung is unquestionably one of the most impressive graphic novel debuts in recent years, a sweeping, magisterially conceived, visually startling tale of violence, amorality, fortitude, and redemption, one part Melville, one part Peckinpah. Blacklung is a story that lives up to the term graphic novel, that could only exist in sequential pictures – densely textured, highly stylized, delicately and boldly rendered drawings that is, taken together, wholly original.

is a multi-awarded graphic novel by French artist and author Cyril Pedrosa that is sad, touching, haunting, vivid, strange, poetic and beautifully drawn all at the same time. Almost all who have read it--many of them new to the medium of graphic novels--find it mesmerizing and are at a loss for words to describe their experience and the emotions they felt. It is published by First Second Books, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, which owns some of America's most prestigious publishers, known for great integrity and literary quality, such as Henry Holt, FSG, St Martin's Press, Tor and Picador, all of which have garnered the most coveted prizes in publishing. Among the many awards that Three Shadows has garnered are: Contra Costa Times Best GN (Graphic Novel) of the Year ; Harrisburg Patriot-News Best GN of the Year ; Newsarama Best GN of the Year; Oregonian Best GN of the Year; and Publisher's Weekly Comics Week Best Comic of the Year. But don't let the rave reviews and all the adjectives color your judgment. Find out for yourself. Read. A high-quality Minutemen-DTs scan.