Letter to survivors / by Gébé; translated and with an introduction by Edward Gauvin ; english lettering by Francois Vigneault.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: New York Review ComicsPublisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2018]Description: xiii, 111 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781681372402
- 1681372401
- Lettre aux survivants. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Northport Library | Graphic Novel | Gebe | Available | 33111008228435 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the blasted ruins of what was once a picture-perfect suburb, nothing stirs-except the postman. Clad in a hazmat suit and mounted on a bicycle, he is still delivering the mail, nuclear apocalypse or no nuclear apocalypse. One family has taken refuge in an underground fallout shelter, and to them he brings-or, rather, shouts through the air vent-a series of odd, anonymous letters. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then begin to get stranger. . .
This pioneering graphic novel was created in 1981 by famed French cartoonist Gebe, a longtime contributor to Charlie Hebdo , and has never before been available in English. Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, at once a witty metafictional game of stories within stories and a scathing, urgent send-up of consumerist excess and nuclear peril- funnier, and scarier, than ever.
First published in French as Lettre aux survivants by Albin Michel (1981).
"In the blasted ruins of what was once a picture-perfect suburb, nothing stirs--except the postman. Clad in a hazmat suit and mounted on a bicycle, he is still delivering the mail, nuclear apocalypse or no nuclear apocalypse. One family has taken refuge in an underground fallout shelter, and to them he brings--or, rather, shouts through the air vent--a series of odd, anonymous letters. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then begin to get stranger. . . . This pioneering graphic novel was created in 1981 by famed French cartoonist Gébé, a longtime contributor to Charlie Hebdo, and has never before been available in English. Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, at once a witty metafictional game of stories within stories and a scathing, urgent send-up of consumerist excess and nuclear peril: funnier, and scarier, than ever"-- Provided by publisher.