Ex libris : a comic
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL MADD (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Minneapolis, MN : Uncivilized Books, 2021.
Physical Description
105 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
Summary
"Ex Libris revolves around a character trapped in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they begin to suspect that the comics contain hidden messages and... a threat. Fiction and reality blur; sanity and madness become increasingly intertwined as the reader becomes convinced the key to their predicament is to be found between the panels of the strange books. With a dizzying array of inventive visual and narrative styles, Ex Libris continues the line of exploration and play that Madden initiated with 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Ex Libris is a tribute to the meta-fictional tradition of writers like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Vladimir Nabokov, and Italo Calvino (whose novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, was the inspiration)."--Amazon.com.
Notes
Pagination within pagination of approximately 105 pages featured throughout book.