Light it shoot it / Graham Chaffee.
Material type: TextPublisher: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First Fantagraphics books editionDescription: 203 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 x 20 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781683966821
- 1683966821
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Graphic Novel | New | CHAFFEE, GRAHAM | Checked out | 06/10/2024 | 33111011344906 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, clueless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt as a teen six years earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood seems like a path of least resistance, until he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor. But the bright lights burn harsher and show more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money, and finds himself in over his head. Drunken, washed-up stars. Scrambling, past-their-own-prime producers. Teenage girls on the make, slick hustlers, and violent fixers. Drawn in bold brushstrokes, and hand-painted in subtle washes, Chaffee brings vintage LA to the page in a propulsive adventure.
"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, hapless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt six year earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood looks like the path of least resistance, but when he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor, it more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money, and fins himself in over the head."--Page 4 of cover