Description: The long-awaited magnum opus from comics superstar Scott McCloud: a spellbinding adult urban fable about a wish, a deal with Death, the price of art, and the value of life
Brief description: Scott McCloud is the award-winning author of Understanding Comics, Making Comics, Zot!, The Sculptor, and many other fiction and non-fiction comics spanning 30 years. An internationally-recognized authority on comics and visual communication, technology, and the power of storytelling, McCloud has lectured at Google, Pixar, Sony, and the Smithsonian Institution.
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A New York Times Bestseller
"McCloud is a master of pacing; he compresses and expands time through the size and arrangement of his images, building to a surprise wallop at the end."--LA Times "McCloud is engaging when he's addressing the difficulties faced by the artist in society, but when he gets to show two fetching young city dwellers falling for each other? That's when he really comes home. David's relationship with Meg, a comely bike messenger, is everything a love story should be: inexorable and ill-omened, plangent and astringent." --NPR "This inventive and touching love story is compelling proof that McCloud can walk the walk as well as talking the talk." --The Gaurdian"The fluidity of McCloud's visual narrative carries us along with a sweep impossible to duplicate in prose, and, through it its climax, the story's commitment to its harsh, inevitable, but ultimately sublime outcome qualifies this as a work of stunning, timeless graphic literature." --Booklist, starred review "McCloud, in this gloriously romantic graphic novel, doesn't just define a genre--he exemplifies it." --Publishers Weekly "An outstanding achievement, extraordinarily moving and memorable."
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