Let’s take a quick look to see what’s arrived at the Geek Compound.
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
by Art Spiegelman
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago.
He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process.
MetaMaus includes a bonus DVD that provides a digitized reference copy of The Complete Maus linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman’s private notebooks and sketches.
Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.
WOW!
Promo copy:
Elements of the Jules Verne novels Master of the World and Robur, The Conqueror are combined in this marvelous science-fiction thriller. Vincent Price stars as Captain Robur, a 19th-century scientist who builds a gigantic airship and sets out to eliminate the world’s weapons in an effort to abolish war. With Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster. 99 min.
Let’s see: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, screenplay by Richard Matheson, and airships. What could be bad?
Habibi
by Craig Thompson
Promo copy:
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth—and frailty—of their connection.
At once contemporary and timeless, Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.
I reviewed Habibi in the current "Nexus Graphica."
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| Set among the deserts and cities of the modern Middle East, the beautiful and lush Habibi follows the lives of two escaped slaves, bound as youths by chance. Deftly intertwining an engaging love story with fascinating tales from the Koran, the always insightful Thompson in his massive (650+ pages) graphic novel expertly explores the economic and social divisions between the first and third worlds as well as the abundant similarities between Islam and Christianity. The ornate gold gilt, embossed covers to the sensational black & white interiors make this one of the century’s prettiest books. The extraordinary and engrossing Habibi belongs in the rarefied air of classics such as Maus and Persepolis. |