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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Shane-Michael Vidaurri , Shane-Michael VidaurriPublisher: Boom! Studios Imprint: Boom! Studios Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9781936393282ISBN 10: 193639328 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 01 January 2013 Recommended Age: From 12 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , Young adult , General , Teenage / Young adult Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsPhil writes: The rabbit James Hardin trudges through the snow at midnight with an envelope of stolen documents. A small resistance movement holds up in a shack in the mountains, a train leaves in three days, and a young rabbit longs to take up his father's war. That's really everything I want to say about Iron's story - if I don't already have you at anthropomorphic John LeCarre', I don't know what else to tell you. Another debut graphic novel to cap off a year full of stellar first books, S. M. Vidaurri exercises the sweetest restraint in his telling of Iron. The dialogue is sparse and exacting, the art deliciously minimal, everything blanketed in snow and fog and shadows - one beautiful wash painting after another, Vidaurri builds a palpable dread and isolation in his fantasy take on postwar Europe. Understatement is his greatest trick here: his rabbits, crows, frogs and tigers barely emote, and body language is similarly deadpan. The effect is incredibly powerful, as each character weathers their various tragedies, tortures, losses and deaths with a stoic melancholy.Iron, or: The War After is an exemplary fable of a war inherited by its orphans, told sensitively and sadly. A subtle little gem from an author/illustrator to watch. Author InformationShane-Michael Vidaurri received a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and publications, including WIN magazine, The Indypendent, and Powerpop Comics. He currently lives and works in New Jersey. His apartment is filled with many animals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |