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Book SynopsisGermany, in the final years of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau is a sound engineer obsessed with recording the human voice in all its variations—the rantings of leaders, the roar of crowds, the rasp of throats constricted in fear—and indifferent to everything else. Employed by the Nazis, his assignments take him to Party rallies, to the Eastern Front, and into the household of Joseph Goebbels. There he meets Helga, the eldest daughter: bright, good-natured, and just beginning to suspect the horror that surrounds her...Based on an acclaimed novel by Marcel Beyer, Voices in the Dark is the first fictional graphic novel by Ulli Lust, whose award-winning graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life appeared in English in 2013. It is the story of an unlikely friendship and of a childhood betrayed, a grim parable of naïveté and evil, and a vivid, unsettling masterpiece.This NYRC edition is a trade paperback and features full color throughout and new English hand-lettering.

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Book SynopsisOne of the Globe & Mail?s 100 Best Books of 2018A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France''s most revered cult comic book artists.Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures?drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English?he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual storytelling and an essential, deeply personal political statement.With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris. Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day.This NYRC edition is an oversized paperback with French flaps, printed endpapers, and extra-thick paper, and features new English hand-lettering and a brand-new story, exclusive to this edition.

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Book SynopsisA collection of legendary absurdist comic strips about life in 1970s New York City, now available in print for the first time in over thirty years.Every week, from 1978 to 1980, The Village Voice brought a new installment of Mark Alan Stamaty''s uproarious, endlessly inventive strip MacDoodle St. Centering more or less on Malcolm Frazzle, a blocked poet struggling to complete his latest lyric for Dishwasher Monthly, Stamaty''s creation encompassed a dizzying array of characters, stories, jokes, and digressions. One week might feature the ongoing battle between irate businessmen and bearded beatniks for control of a Greenwich Village coffee shop, the next might reveal a dastardly plot involving a genetically engineered dishwashing monkey, or the frustrated dreams of an irascible, over-caffeinated painter, or the mysterious visions of a duffle-coated soothsayer on the bus. Not to mention the variable moods and longings of the comic strip itself.... And somehow, in the end, it all fits together. MacDoodle St. is more than just a hilarious weekly strip; it is a great comic novel, a thrilling, surprising, unexpectedly moving ode to art, life, and New York City. This new edition features a brand-new, twenty-page autobiographical comic by Stamaty explaining what happened next and why MacDoodle St. never returned, in a unique, funny, and poignant look at the struggles and joys of being an artist.

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Book SynopsisExperimenta la fascinante y poderosa historia del movimiento de derechos civiles de los nativos americanos y su lucha por la identidad contada a través de la carrera de los pioneros del rock and roll de la costa oeste de Redbone.Ya has escuchado la exitosa canción "Come and Get Your Love" en la película Guardianes de la Galaxia, pero la historia de la banda detrás de la canción es de gran importancia cultural, política y social.Los hermanos Pat y Lolly Vegas fueron talentosos músicos de rock nativos americanos que tomaron por sorpresa el Sunset Strip de la década de 1960. Influyeron a The Doors y se toparon con Jimmy Hendrix antes de que fuera "Jimi", y la idea de una banda compuesta de miembros nativos americanos pronto se hizo realidad. Dedicados a controlar su visión creativa y mantener su identidad cultural, firmaron un acuerdo con Epic Records en 1969. Pero a medida que el Movimiento Indígena Americano cobró impulso, la banda tomó una posición, eligiendo el orgullo de su linaje en lugar de la recompensa comercial.Creado en cooperación con la familia Vegas, los autores Christian Staebler y Sonia Paolini con el artista Thibault Balahy toman medidas cuidadosas para garantizar la precisión histórica de este importante momento del pasado de los Estados Unidos que a menudo se ignora. Parte una biografía y parte una investigación, Redbone ofrece una voz a un grupo descuidado en la historia estadounidense.La historia detrás de Redbone es de importancia cultural, política y social. Proporciona una voz a un grupo descuidado en la historia estadounidense. Los hermanos Pat y Lolly Vegas fueron talentosos músicos de rock nativos americanos que tomaron el Sunset Strip y la radio de los años sesenta por sorpresa, pero a medida que el Movimiento Indígena Americano cobró impulso, la banda tomó una posición, eligiendo el orgullo de su linaje en lugar de la recompensa comercial.

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