{"product_id":"9781683965640","title":"A Book to Make Friends with","description":"\u003cp\u003eA dizzying, psychedelic and psychological journey of a man in search of himself, rendered in hyper-energetic, eye-popping colored pencils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2023-08-29\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46478046560387,"sku":"9781683965640","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781683965640.jpg?v=1770305093","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781683965640","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}