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James Vance and Dan Burr
Kings in Disguise
A Novel
Introduction by Alan Moore
�One of the most moving and compelling human stories to emerge
out of the graphic story medium.��Alan Moore
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression,
received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon
they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time,
Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January
1932, and movie-loving Freddie Bloch is trading his father�s liquor
bottles for the cost of a matinee: �Dreams were only a dime, and
empty bottles brought a penny apiece.� When his father disappears
and his brother gets arrested, Freddie finds himself homeless and
adrift, trying to survive during the Detroit labor riots and amid
the furor of violent, anti-communist mobs.
�Utterly masterful.��Ron Evry, Fantagraphics Best Comics of
All Time
�Wonderful, earnest storytelling . . . a book made by intelligent,
caring human hands.��Art Spiegelman |
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| " As much as Maus,
as The Watchmen, as Love and Rockets, Kings
in Disguise played its part in the rise of the graphic novel,
taking us back into the hobo jungles of the Great Depression for a
remarkable story of broken people and growing up. I'm thrilled that
it's going to be available for a new generation." �Neil Gaiman
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| �The best case yet that a mainstream
novel can be told in comics form.��Max Allan Collins, writer of Dick
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| Author, playwright, and director
James Vance has written scripts for The Crow, The Spirit:
The New Adventures, and other popular comics. By day he is a
journalist in Oklahoma. Dan Burr has drawn for DC Comics� Big
Book Series and contributed to a number of underground comics
like Death Rattle and Grateful Dead Comix. He lives
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| April 2006 / paperback / ISBN
0-393-32848-1 / 208 pages / GRAPHIC NOVELS |
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published
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KINGS IN DISGUISE by JAMES
VANCE and DAN BURR (1988).
Hands down, one of the finest graphic
novels ever created. Highly praised by top professionals like
Will Eisner, Art Spiegleman, Gil Kane and Harvey Kurtzman
and praised by Publishers Weekly as "one of the
top trade paperbacks of 1990," long before graphic novels
gained general respectability. Kings in Disguise is a coming-of-age
story set against the Great Depression as a 12-year old boy, Freddie
Bloch, sets across America to find the alcoholic father who
abandoned his family. Along the way Freddie discovers another
America, one populated by hobo jungles, violent strikes and Hoovervilles,
learns about himself, and finds a surrogate father while hopping
freight trains.
Powerfully told by James Vance
and evocatively illustrated by Dan Burr. Winner of multiple
Eisner and Harvey Awards. Kings was translated overseas
in 2004 in three countries: Italy (for the second time),
Sweden and France. We can't endorse this one strongly
enough. Published by Kitchen Sink Press.
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