20KM/H
Record details
- ISBN: 9781770466692 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
372 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: [Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn and Quarterly, 2023
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | A slow-motion drive-by view of a collapsing universe meant to sit in the palm of your hand. How fast can you go in a buggy drawn by the flap of a butterfly's wings? How do you measure the speed of waking from a dream? Such abstract inquiries into the unrelenting absurdity of contemporary life make up this omnibus of meditative vignettes from one of mainland China's most prolific and recognizable--yet anonymous--new underground cartoonists of the current generation. Every story in 20 km/h toes the line between pun and poetry, and lands somewhere just short of a zen koan: Come back to it as often as you like, it will never read quite the same way twice. A nondescript figure awakes from an assembly line of identically fashioned companions and boards a rowboat destined for the unknown. A man holds the key to sleep in his hand and uses it to disappear into his mattress. The moon is plucked from the sky and fed into a vending machine for a can of soda. |
Language Note: | In English, translated from the Chinese. |
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Subject: | Speed -- Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc -- China -- Translations into English Chinese wit and humor, Pictorial |
Genre: | Graphic books. Cartoons (Humor) Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) |
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Sechelt Public Library | GN F WOSH (Text) | 33260100133439 | Graphic Novels | Volume hold | Available | - |