DEAD HERRING Comics

This fabulous oversized album includes Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of no Towers"; a modern fairytale by the French cartoonist Blanquet; an interview with the Japanese alternative Manga artist, Suehiro Maruo; a new domestic drama by Rutu Modan, short stories by Etgar Keret, a silent story by Ulf K., as well as work by members of Actus, a Tel Aviv-based group of comic artists who drew international attention to their skill and originality. Their strips reflect the contemporary Israeli concerns of terrorism, nuclear secrecy, shadowy government security operations, and emigration, as well as such more mundane and universal matters as broken homes, adolescent trauma, and urban ennui. Particularly notable are Batia Kolton's devastating portrait of the tensions that underlie an extended family, Mira Friedmann's tale of love and the secret police, and David Polonsky's technically astounding snapshot of life on an Israeli street corner. Dead Herring Comics also contains five detachable mini-posters by the Actus artists. Out Of Print. Condition: Fine. Light edge wear and tipped corners.