Author

Contributions

  • Mezzo, 1960- - Contributor
  • Dascher, Helge, 1965- - Contributor
  • Kadlecek, John - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Fantagraphics, Seattle, WA, Washington (State)

Language

English

Word Count

16,000 words, Guess

Page Count

64 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101606993208
  • ISBN-139781606993200
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013409200
  • OCLC Control Number851069676
  • OCLC Control Number465368168
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781606993200
  • Open LibraryOL27132023M

Classifications

  • DDC741.5/944
  • LCCPN6747.P53 K55 2010
  • LCCPN6747.M53 K56 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCPN6747

Alternate Titles

  • Hallorave

Description

"Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest American cartoonists. Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a series of cynical, brutal gangster stories, have abandoned their guns and gals for this cycle of suburban stories, but in King of the Flies the violence has just (for the most part) been interiorized. King of the Flies first appears to be a series of unrelated short stories, each starring (and narrated by) a different protagonist, but it soon becomes obvious that these seemingly disparate episodes weave together to form a single complex narrative, with events that are only glimpsed (or even referred to) revisited from different perspectives-- revolving around Eric, a ne'er-do-well, drug-taking teenager at war with his stepfather and, apparently, the whole world. (He is the titular King.)"--Publisher's web site.

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