Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak. 
A group of teenagers pick up trash on the side of the highway--flirting, preening, and ignoring a potentially violent loner in their midst. A college student brings her sort-of boyfriend to a disastrous house party with her high-school acquaintances. A young woman experiences a traumatic incident at the pizza shop where she works and the fallout reveals the racial tensions simmering below the surface. Again and again, the civilized façade of Drnaso's pitch-perfect surburban sprawl and pasty Midwestern protagonists cracks in the face of violence and quiet brutality.
Drnaso's bleak social satire in Beverly reveals a brilliant command of the social milieu of twenty-first-century existence, echoing the black comic work of Todd Solondz, Sam Lipsyte, and Daniel Clowes. Precisely and hauntingly recounted, each chapter of Beverly reveals something new--and yet familiar--about the world in which we live.

Beverly

Comics & Graphic Novels

DRNASO, Nick

Graphic Novels

Drawn and Quarterly

THE FIRST EVER GRAPHIC NOVEL NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK! ON 20 BEST OF 2018 LISTS INCLUDING THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, NEWSWEEK, AND THE GUARDIAN!
“Sabrina is the intimate story of one man’s suffering, but it also captures the political nihilism of the social-media era―a time when a President can dismiss the murder of a journalist by saying of the perpetrator, “Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.”" ―DT Max, The New Yorker
Conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right―until it isn’t
When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives.
The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.

Sabrina

Product Description 
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." ―John Smith, acting coachFrom the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso’s Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable leader. The group of social misfits and restless searchers have one thing in common: they are out of step with their surroundings and desperate for change.A husband and wife, four years into their marriage and simmering in boredom. A single mother, her young son showing disturbing signs of mental instability. A peculiar woman with few if any friends and only her menial job keeping her grounded. A figure model, comfortable in his body and ready for a creative challenge. A worried grandmother and her adult granddaughter; a hulking laborer and gym nut; a physical therapist; an ex-con.With thrumming unease, the class sinks deeper into their lessons as the process demands increasing devotion. When the line between real life and imagination begins to blur, the group’s deepest fears and desires are laid bare. Exploring the tension between who we are and how we present, Drnaso cracks open his characters’ masks and takes us through an unsettling American journey. 
 About the Author 
Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut, 
Beverly, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. His followup, the graphic novel 
Sabrina, was a 
New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and received nominations for the Booker Prize, the Eisner Award, the LD and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. 
Sabrina has been published in fifteen countries. Drnaso lives in Chicago with his wife and their two cats.

Acting Class

Acting class: Nick Drnaso

Faber and Faber

PRESQUE LUNE

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Blumenbar

Kultura gniewu

Sabrina, la primera novela gráfica nominada al Premio Man Booker, gira en torno a la desaparición de la chica que da título a la obra y a las repercusiones que tiene en sus allegados, especialmente en su novio y en un viejo amigo de éste, militar del ejército de Estados Unidos, quienes, dejándose llevar por las suposiciones, medias verdades y teorías de la conspiración, verán cambiar por completo sus vidas. Drnaso, con su dibujo frío y preciso, refleja a la perfección la irónica falta de interacción humana en un mundo donde los medios de comunicación y las redes sociales, lejos de acercarnos, nos convierten en actores y marionetas. / Sabrina, the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Booker Prize, revolves around the disappearance of the titular character and the repercussions on her family and friends, in particular how it affects her boyfriend who, drawn to the half-truths and conspiracies, will see their lives changed forever.

Sabrina (Spanish Edition)

Manga

Salamandra Graphic

Fulgencio Pimentel S.L.

Coconino Press

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