Cabbie, The: Book One (Hardcover)

Sergio Leone s retooling of classic westerns for his spaghetti westerns Stieg Larsson s striking take on the serial killer/mystery thriller in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo And for that matter ABBA s fiendishly catchy appropriation of American pop music. Sometimes it takes Europeans to make gold of tuckered-out American tropes. Add to those instances of inspired global cross-pollination the Spanish cartoonist Marti s eye-popping The Cabbie, which spins off Martin Scorsese s sordid urban-justice drama Taxi Driver with a graphic style that unapologetically appropriates and even refines the brutal slabs of black, squashed perspectives, and grotesque approach to human physiognomy (and its ability to withstand punishment) that define Chester Gould s Dick Tracy. And as Art Spiegelman (who was the first to publish Marti s work in English, in RAW magazine) notes in his introduction, while Gould s graphic black and white precision and his diagrammatic clarity live on in Marti s work, he points out that more interestingly, perhaps, so does Gould s depravity. Indeed, if anything, The Cabbie is even more savage than the legendarily brutal Dick Tracy, with its pimps, whores, petty thieves, corrupt businessmen, all swirling around the ingenuously violent Cabbie whose self-administered upstanding citizen status entitles him in his view to even more shocking acts of violence especially on his quest for the stolen coffin of his father, which he s told includes his entire inheritance "

General

Imprint:	Fantagraphics Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Marta
Introduction by:	Art Spiegelman
Dimensions:	305 x 229 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	82
ISBN-13:	978-1-60699-450-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels
LSN:	1-60699-450-6
Barcode:	9781606994504

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