The green hand and other stories / Nicole Claveloux ; with Edith Zha ; introduction by Daniel Clowes ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; English lettering by Dustin Harbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claveloux, Nicole, author, artist.

Zha, Édith, author.

Contributor:

Clowes, Daniel, writer of introduction.

Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.

Harbin, Dustin, letterer.

Standardized Title:

Comic books, strips, etc. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Literary.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Contemporary Women.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Fantasy.

Local Subjects:

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Literary.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Contemporary Women.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Fantasy.

Graphic novels.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

100 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Comics, [2017]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through, lands in which the very air seems alive and capable of telling you a dirty joke (or the meaning of life). In the title story, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance--complete with talking shrubbery, infantile gourmands, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This new selection is the perfect introduction to the work of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The green hand. The green hand ; The black grass ; The white night ; Blue funk ; Purple sideshows / written by Edith Zha

No family!

The little vegetable who dreamed he was a panther

The ninny and her prince charming

Stupistory number 1

A little girl always in a dream

The tale of Blondie, Dearest Doe, and Fat Kitty Cat

Underground chatter.

Notes:

"The green hand published in French as La main verte by Les Humanoïds Associés (1978); "No family!" published in French in Métal hurlant no. 45, October 1979; all other stories published in French in Le petit légume qui rêvait d'être une panthère et autres récits by Les Humanoïds Associés (1980)"--Title page verso.

Includes interview with the authors.

Other Format:

Online version: Claveloux, Nicole. Comic books, strips, etc. English. Green hand and other stories.

ISBN:

9781681371078

1681371073

OCLC:

982373752

Publisher Number:

99974380722