{"product_id":"9798875000928","title":"Arsène Schrauwen","description":"\u003cp\u003eUtopia comes with a price in this new 10th anniversary paperback edition of the acclaimed comedic graphic novel inspired by the author's mid-century colonialist grandfather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: In this crackpot graphic novel from the historically minded and utterly original Schrauwen, the Belgian cartoonist imagines a fanciful history that slips the bonds of reality almost immediately. ... The author's obsessions with infestation, death, mutation, and genitalia, scroll in a continuous waking dream set amid a Magritte-Dali landscape.-- \"Publishers Weekly Starred Review\" Review Quotes : This is a book of imagination and tale-telling.-- \"American Book Review\" Review Quotes : While reading this graphic novel, I kept thinking, 'I can't believe how smart Oliver Schrauwen is.' Every page reveals an eccentric and original cartooning mind at work. ... Taken together, [his] artistic choices make for an oddly moving way to tell an uncanny story, an epic surrealist adventure in architectural modernity, European colonialism, social idealism, and sexual perversion.-- \"The Comics Journal\" Review Quotes : The book is flat-out one of the most complex and interesting--visually, thematically, conceptually--comics of the last few years.... The Belgian cartoonist is the embodiment of the idea that cartooning is writing with pictures, and with Arsène he proves himself a better writer than basically everyone else working today.-- \"Paste\" Publisher Marketing : In 1947, the author's grandfather, Arsène Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin. Together they would build something deemed impossible: a modern utopia in the wilderness -- but not before Arsène falls in love with his cousin's wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arsène's loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the graphic novel reader's uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsène. This first full-length graphic novel from the critically acclaimed Olivier Schrauwen is an engrossing, sometimes funny, slightly surreal and often beautiful narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025-05-20\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46494736089219,"sku":"9798875000928","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9798875000928.jpg?v=1770350073","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9798875000928","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}