Off Season

3.96 ( 28 Ratings by Goodreads)
Off Season

Off Season

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3.96 (28 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 5 February, 2019
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How could this happen? The question of 2016 becomes deeply personal in James Sturm s riveting graphic novel Off Season, which charts one couple s divisive separation during Bernie Sanders s loss to Hillary Clinton, Clinton s loss to Donald Trump, and the disorienting months that followed. We see a father navigating life as a single parent and coping with the disintegration of a life-defining relationship. Amid the upheaval lie tender moments with his kids a sleeping child being carried in from the car, Christmas-morning anticipation, a late-night cookie after a temper tantrum and fallible humans drenched in palpable feelings of grief, rage, loss, and overwhelming love. Using anthropomorphized characters as a tactic for tempering an otherwise emotionally fraught situation, Off Season is unaffected and raw, steeped in the specificity of its time while speaking to a larger cultural moment. A truly human experience, Off Season displays Sturm s masterful pacing and storytelling combined with conscious and confident growth as the celebrated cartoonist and educator moves away from historical fiction to deliver this long-form narrative set in contemporary times. Originally serialized on Slate, this expanded edition turns timely vignettes into a timeless, deeply affecting account of one family and their off season.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781770463318
ISBN10 1770463313
Number Of Pages 216
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Drawn and Quarterly
Format hardback
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Mr. Sturm knows when to let the images speak for themselves. --New York Times

James Sturm's graphic narratives are strongly grounded in American history, drawing upon this history to tell fictional stories with ongoing relevance. --Los Angeles Review of Books

Sturm's... words and images achieve the quiet lyricism of the folktale, the fable. --NPR

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Author's Bio

James Sturm lives in White River Junction, Vermont, with his wife and two daughters, where he helps run a cartooning school that he cofounded, the Center for Cartoon Studies. His books include Market Day, The Golem's Mighty Swing, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, Denys Wortman s New York, and the popular Adventures in Cartooning series. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times, Slate, and on the cover of The New Yorker. Sturm has taught and exhibited his work throughout the world.

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