A Book to Make Friends with

A dizzying, psychedelic and psychological journey of a man in search of himself, rendered in hyper-energetic, eye-popping colored pencils.

Publisher Marketing: A wonderful, oversized graphic novel full of wild pencil drawings.-- "Humo" Review Quotes : A crime 'caper' that evolves into a hallucinatory metaphysical journey and will knock your socks off with its lush, vibrant art, Flemish cartoonist Verstraete is a contemporary heir to the best of the RAW artists in both spirit and style, and his work absolutely earns the deluxe, no-holds-barred presentation Fanta gives it here.-- "Four Color Apocalypse" Review Quotes : An overwhelming debut and a mind-expanding book.-- "De Standaard" Review Quotes : A colorful array of absurdities captured in clear lines.-- "De Volkskrant" Review Quotes : Verstraete leaves no stone unturned in his English-language debut, a violence-drenched, underground-comic-style flight into the unknown. It's an expertly rendered ... journey into a realm of magic, brutality, and entropy. Verstraete finds a cockeyed humor in this apocalyptic vision.-- "Publishers Weekly" Brief Description : "The explosive English language debut of Flemish cartoonist Lukas Verstraete. What begins as a Pulp Fiction-inspired heist, in which two masked gangsters rob a passerby of his mysterious briefcase, soon snowballs into a psychedelic journey full of chase scenes, shapeshifting, soul possession, spiritual hallucinations, and unrequited romance. It all culminates in an epic, breathtakingly rendered battle between good and evil"-- Review Quotes : Imagination is hardly in short supply as Verstraete drags readers on a long shaggy dog story that's really a vehicle for his kinetic underground-style cartooning, leading the reader into ever stranger locations. Vividly bright pages, instant shifts of scenery and ever more remarkable events...-- "Slings & Arrows" Publisher Marketing : Tick, tick, boom. Open the cover of this graphic novel to unleash a bombastic bomb blast of frenetic line work, a cacophony of vibrant color, and an action-packed narrative that whirls and swirls in all directions like the furious, roaring winds of a mushroom cloud. Enter the blast radius of this conflagration of imagination and experience how brilliantly its creative fires burn.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 208 | Publication Date: 2023-08-29