The ghost script : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feiffer, Jules, author, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc.

Ghosts--Comic books, strips, etc.

Ghosts.

Blacklisting of entertainers--Comic books, strips, etc.

Blacklisting of entertainers.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Comic books, strips, etc.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels.

Noir fiction.

Physical Description:

149 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]

Summary:

Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back- channel clearinghouse for victims of the entertainment world's purge. Stumbling his way through this maze is private eye Archie Goldman, a tough-talking good guy, always a step or two behind in this fast-moving story of plots, counterplots, and goon violence. Meet Lola Burns, the buxom Blacklistee, desperate to get back into pictures, and O. Z. McCay and Fay Bloom, the booze-swilling, hard-living communist screenwriters. In this satiric assault on our past and present, Feiffer shows how the arc of American history evolves from starry dreams to thwarted and sold- out dreams.

ISBN:

9781631493133

1631493132

OCLC:

1005123885

Publisher Number:

99977246228