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Ganges / Kevin Huizenga.
LIBRA - Rare Comics Collection Comics 543 v.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huizenga, Kevin, 1977- author, artist.
- Series:
- Ignatz (Bologna, Italy) ; 5.
- Ignatz collection ; #5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic novels.
- Insomnia--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Insomnia.
- graphic novels.
- Genre:
- comic strips.
- comic books.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 2006-2011.
- [Bologna, Italy] : Coconino Press
- Summary:
- "Kevin Huizenga introduces his everyman Glenn Ganges (previously seen in the acclaimed Drawn and Quarterly Showcase and Or Else) to the "Ignatz" family with this suite of all-new stories. Ganges tries to decide what to do when confronted with "The Litterer"; gets into an argument with his wife Wendy about The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home"; indulges in some whimsical "Time Travelling" while on a walk around his neighborhood; and more! Huizenga's elegant neo-clear-line style brings a crispness and humor to these low-key slice-of-life stories, and the gray-blue duotone he has picked gives the art a new depth and complexity."--Amazon on v.1.
- "Everyman Glenn Ganges ruminates on the simple times of the dot-com era when the reality of business was propped up by the unreality of addictive technology and hope. Kevin Huizenga cleverly parallels that unreality with the unreality of addictive networked first-person shooter video games, and the attempts of people around him to genuinely connect with each other. Huizenga's elegant neo-clear-line style brings a crispness and humor to these low-key slice-of-life stories, and the gray-blue duotone he has picked gives the art a new depth and complexity"--Amazon on v.2.
- "In the third issue of Kevin Huizenga's Eisner Award nominated comic, Glenn Ganges still can't fall asleep. In "Mind and Body" Glenn tries lying still, but his mind -- The Wanderer -- keeps thwarting his plans! In "Getting Things Done" he gives up trying to get to sleep and tries to get some things done... until the cops show up! All executed in Huizenga's strikingly crisp, lovely two-color "clear line" style, and presented in our deluxe oversized Ignatz format."--Wow Cool site on v.3.
- "Can you make an exciting comic out of insomnia? Kevin Huizenga rises to the challenge as he depicts his alter ego Glenn Ganges wrestling with sleeplessness, trying to trick it by reading a particularly abstruse book, obsessively breaking his past, present and future life into ever more hallucinatory, complex grids, and wandering around his darkened house trying not to wake up his wife. Also: Loose cat action!" --Wow Cool site on v.4.
- Contents:
- No. 1. Glenn Ganges in Time travelling ; Glenn Ganges in The litterer ; Glenn + Wendy
- Glenn Ganges with Wendy ; Glenn in Bed
- no. 2. [Video game fight] ; Glenn Ganges in Pulverize.
- no. 3. Glenn Ganges in Mind and body ; Glenn Ganges in Getting things done.
- no.4 Endless Night ; Eyes Closed ; The Wanderer ; Time Traveling II.
- Local Notes:
- Comics 543: Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Jessica Abel and Matt Madden in 2026. 4 volumes.
- ISBN:
- 9781560977629
- 1560977620
- 9781560979425
- 1560979429
- 9781606993385
- 1606993380
- OCLC:
- 66910200
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