{"product_id":"cousin-joseph-a-graphic-novel","title":"COUSIN JOSEPH A Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, legendary cartoonist \u003cstrong\u003eJules Feiffer\u003c\/strong\u003e began an epic saga of American noir fiction. With \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCousin Joseph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, a prequel that introduces us to bare-knuckled Detective Sam Hannigan, head of the Bay City's Red Squad and patriarch of the Hannigan family featured in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKill My Mother\u003c\/span\u003e, Feiffer brings us the second installment in this highly anticipated graphic trilogy.\n\nThe story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will film only upbeat films that idealize a mythic America: no warts, no injustice uncorrected, only happy endings.\n\nWith \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCousin Joseph\u003c\/span\u003e, Feiffer builds on his late-life conversion to cinematic noir, bowing, as ever, to youthful heroes Will Eisner and Milton Caniff, but ultimately creating a masterpiece that through his unique perspective and comic-strip noir style illuminates the very origins of Hollywood and its role in creating the bipolar nation we've become.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Fine Plus. \u003c\/strong\u003eTop slightly bumped corner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59641002918174,"sku":"RB4849","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB4849-cousin-joseph.jpg?v=1784502703","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/cousin-joseph-a-graphic-novel","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}