Heartless [Paperback]

Nina Bunjevac's brilliant debut graphic novel returns in this expanded 10th Anniversary edition.

Powered by an expressive black and white drawing style, reminiscent of Robert Crumb and the meticulous pointillist technique of Drew Friedman, the dark undertone of Bunjevacs humour brings into light the range of socio-political issues her comics deal with, such as gender, nationalism or urban alienation, always from an ironic feminist perspective. Her chain-smoking, slightly alcoholic and manically depressed character Zorka may just be todays ultimate antiheroine. A Balkan immigrant in the Brave New World, working in that same meat factory for the last twenty years, tormented by family constraints and her own secret desires& we simply cant get enough of her.  BTurn

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CA This book is a wild thrill ride through hell on a Tilt-A-Whirl! Its a triple-dip banana split with a live cockroach at the bottom! I dig it the most, and so will you!  Jay Lynch Heartless is just amazing! I laughed out loud a lot. It is chock full of great stuff and I'm hard to please! Nina Bunjevac's art is a pleasure to look at. The writing is seriously demented, but in a totally brilliant, highly entertaining way. It is its own thing, imitating no one.  Kim Deitch The most vitally reinvigorating change in modern comics is the unstoppable rise of women, as creators, as readers, and as characters. In her impressive debut collection, Nina Bunjevac stuns as a distinctive, innovative voice, adept at hyper detailed cartooning and deliciously disturbing as she probes the darkest depths of desire and despair.  Paul Gravett Her drawing chops are stunning, yet shes no mere illustrator, as she breathes life into her characters as they are the vessels of her bawdy but bone-dry and pitch-black sense of humor.  Rob Clough, The Comics Journal Visually, Bunjevac employs a stippled, shadowed approlã(