Prairie State Blues: Comic Strips & Graphic Tales
- Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1973
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1973. Softcover. Oblong octavo (22cm x 28cm); white pictorial paper wrappers; [64]pp; black-and-white comic illustrations throughout. Light tanning and trace shelf-wear, with tiny tear to lower front wrapper; Very Good.
Some parts first published in the Chicago Review and Creem, this collection explores human behavior through comics of animals, and includes "I dreamt", "Momma", and Living in Vernon, California". Additionally, this text is, "one of the first graphic novels whose interior landscapes of a leviathan Midwest show" (see Chicago Review Press Blog, Reflections from the Publisher).
"While most readers won't know what to make of Prairie State Blues, the book represents a new breakthrough in combining the written word with the visual image to portray a deeply personal but unmistakably American view of the nature of existence" (see Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, M. Thomas Inge). [86946].
Some parts first published in the Chicago Review and Creem, this collection explores human behavior through comics of animals, and includes "I dreamt", "Momma", and Living in Vernon, California". Additionally, this text is, "one of the first graphic novels whose interior landscapes of a leviathan Midwest show" (see Chicago Review Press Blog, Reflections from the Publisher).
"While most readers won't know what to make of Prairie State Blues, the book represents a new breakthrough in combining the written word with the visual image to portray a deeply personal but unmistakably American view of the nature of existence" (see Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, M. Thomas Inge). [86946].