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