Local

Author

Brian Wood

Call Number

• GRAPHIC NOVEL WOOD TEEN (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2008.

Physical Description

376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Summary

"From Brian Wood (Demo, DMZ, Northlanders) and Ryan Kelly (Lucifer, American Virgin, The New York Four) comes Local, a collection of twelve interconnected short stories, each featuring Megan McKeenan, a young woman who sets out from Portland, Oregon with nothing but a rucksack and a bad case of wanderlust. These emotional vignettes each represent a year in the life of this young vagabond as she searches for a place to call home, both physically and spiritually. Set in twelve real life cities across North America, this painstakingly researched and meticulously illustrated volume collects for the first time the critically acclaimed series that writer Brian K. Vaughan (Lost, Runaways, Y: The Last Man) called 'the sharpest slices of life the medium has ever seen'"--Publisher's web site.

Notes

"This volume collects issues 1-12 of the Oni Press comics series Local"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Ten thousand thoughts per second
• Polaroid boyfriend
• Theories and defenses
• Two brothers
• Last lonely days at the Oxford Theatre
• Megan and Gloria, Apartment 5A
• Hazardous youth
• Food as substitute
• Wish you were here
• Bar crawl
• Younger generation
• House that Megan built
• Local: the essays.