Editorial Drawn & Quarterly
Fecha de edición abril 2024 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781770462250
163 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 200 mm x 241 mm
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway-flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst.
A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized facade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality.
Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new-and yet familiar-about the world in which we live.
Nick Drnaso (1989, Palos Hills, Illinois) ha colaborado en varias antologías de cómic, ha autoeditado otros tantos tebeos, ha sido nominado a tres premios Ignatz y ha coeditado el segundo y el tercer volumen de Linework, antología anual del Columbia College. Drnaso vive en Chicago, donde trabaja como animador e ilustrador. Beverly es su primera novela gráfica.
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