The Green Hand and Other Stories
by Nicole Claveloux
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"Nicole Claveloux's short stories--originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English--are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are show more surprisingly easy to fall through, lands in which the very air seems alive and capable of telling you a dirty joke (or the meaning of life). In the title story, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance--complete with talking shrubbery, infantile gourmands, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This new selection is the perfect introduction to the work of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics"-- show lessTags
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The title story is amazing, but some of the other stories are typical 70s French pedo-bait.
French comics from the 60s, about fantastical happenings to ordinary people. Not enough narrative payoff for me.
if anyone reading this can teach me to use watercolor in this way and not in the dumb baby way i do it please let me know & maybe we can work out a deal
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Biblioteca esencial de mujeres (100 libros 100)
53 works; 1 member
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28+ Works 168 Members
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- Canonical title*
- La main verte et autres récits
- Original language
- French
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Classifications
- Genre
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- PN6747 .C53 .A2 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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- Members
- 94
- Popularity
- 340,678
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.80)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
