Kill My Mother A Graphic Novel [Paperback]

Jules FeiffersThe book is full of the stock characters of the classic noir detective genretheres the drunken loser of a private eye, a long-suffering but resourceful widow and her plucky teenage daughter (who also happens to hate her), prize fighters, tough guys chewing on cigars and, of course, a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the characterizations, relationships and, notably, the dialogue hes createda Feiffer specialtyare anything but stock in what is shaping up (The most astonishing plot twist in this hard-boiled musical melodrama chock-full of shifting identities and relationships involves seeing Jules Feifferthe old master who reinvented the newspaper comic strip in the middle of the twentieth?centurynow reinvents?Nobody moves like a Feiffer character, and no graphic novel has ever moved likeMultitalented Jules Feiffer has done it all. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award,?an Obie Award, among many others, hes now turned his spectacular talent to a graphic novel. Nobody writes like Jules! Nobody draws like Jules! Nobody in their?right mind would miss reading this monumental milestone of his incredible career!The story is wickedly imagined and deftly plotted, drawing on numerous classic noir influences while including charmingly unique flourishes& Feiffers illustrations have a rough-hewn quality, with the jumbled lines of his figures and faces clumping evocatively like Giacometti sculptures, while his human forms move with the fluidity of Degas horses across open panels of dancing and boxing. The entire work feels pulled from an earlier time yet explosively modern, a madcap relic animated by an outrageous mind. An unusual, unforgettable, incomparable pulpy punch.Feiffers expressive inking seems made for full-length graphic novels, with inventive page layouts and action that practically leaps from panel to panel as the story jumps from the Great Depression to WWII& The 85-year-old legend fixes his material with a fresh and youthl3#