Frank Santoro

Frankie's parents marry when his father returns from Vietnam. His paternal grandparents are happy with the marriage as she becomes the daughter his grandmother always wanted. His material grandmother was not happy with it. Frankie grows up in the Pittsburgh suburb, Swissvale. After Frankie graduates from high school and leaves Pittsburgh, his parents divorce and don't speak to each other. Eventually his mother gives him his grandparents' home, hoping to bring him home. He learns a lot of show more family history at that time. It changes how he looks at things.

I liked this story. It is in comic book fashion. It is bleak and gritty which is what is happening in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas in the 1980's as the steel mills close and people leave to follow the jobs. He is what people from Pittsburgh were thinking at that time--nothing here but we hate leaving Pittsburgh. Once a Pittsburgher, always a Pittsburgher.

He does a good job of showing what the town and the time were like. This is worth reading if you're from the area. show less

Santoro riesce a rendere con grande semplicità e trasporto un momento - letteralmente - cristallizzato nella storia, in cui fra vicende estremamente quotidiane il tempo si sospende - di nuovo letteralmente - per sempre. Molto evocativo.

I read this when it first came out, in 1995, as a newsprint standalone when Frank Santoro and his then girlfriend, Katie Glicksberg, who did the colors and handled production, were living in the vaguely defined Tenderloin of San Francisco. They had stacks and stacks of it still in their tiny apartment a year later, when I moved down from Sacramento to take a new job. It says something about the unpredictable path of culture that dozen years later the book had been forgotten then remembered, show more collected by the publisher Picturebox as a lovingly scanned hardcover (and, later, softcover) volume with an introduction by Chris Ware. It's just a beautiful book, a nostalgia-rich story mixing matters of hard times economics and buddy journey. show less

""The narrative itself while clearly the product of a romantic imagination nevertheless manages to steer clear of cliché and brings to the page a vision of its subject that comes alive to the reader. The central protagonist and narrator is Will, a young man stuck in the Pittsburgh of way-back-when and rarin’ to go, but not sure where to until he learns that his former mentor/partner/best-friend, the Reverend Rudy, has been sighted in Montreal, and then he’s off! ....
Storeyville is a show more rare one-of-a-kind treat that anyone who is at all passionate about comics is sure to not only enjoy reading, but also to come away from the experience with a deeper appreciation of what the medium of Comics is capable." Bill Boichel, Copacetic Comics show less