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The Man Who Grew His Beard collects seven short stories. Though each stands alone, they are intertwined thematically, offering peeks into the minds of semi-autistic, achingly isolated men, their feverish inner worlds and how they interact and contrast with their real environment. Though Schrauwen taps ‘surrealist’ or ‘absurdist’ impulses in his work, you will not read a more careful and precise collection of stories this year. The stories included are: “Hair Types,” a hilarious piece that on the surface explores the pseudoscientific classification of personality as a function of hair but becomes something more akin to a fable about self-fulfilling prophecy; “Chromo Congo,” a silent story about two men on safari who meet a corpulent and obnoxious hunter; as well as “The Task,” “The Man Who Grew His Beard,” “The Lock,” “The Cave,” and “The Imaginist.” </li></ul>

The Man Who Grew His Beard GN

Comics & Graphic Novels

Schrauwen, Olivier

Graphic Novels

Fantagraphics Books

In 1947, the authorâ€™s grandfather, Arsene 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 â€” but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousinâ€™s wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arseneâ€™s loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the graphic novel readerâ€™s uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsene.

Arsene Schrauwen

This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

Parallel Lives

Product Description 
In this graphic novel, three cutting-edge, world-renowned cartoonists team up to tell a tale of an 18th-century pirate ― one who's more gallows fodder than a Hollywood swashbuckler. Guy is no master mariner, with a clipped red (or black) beard. He's just an ordinary member of the crew ― able enough, but also a lazy, cowardly liar, a drunkard, and a thief. His story is told in two allegorical parts: "The Blowout" and "The Hangover." Three contemporary comics titans, Belgian Olivier Schrauwen ( 
Parallel Lives) and the French duo Ruppert and Mulot ( 
The Perineum Technique) collaborate to bring you the best pictorial and narrative elements of the great tales of the sea ― bright colors, grand battles, gallows humor ― in this tour de force of black comedy. Full-color illustrations throughout. 
 Review 
"Those wanting a visual tour de force and an exciting exercise in graphic storytelling need look no further." 
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Booklist\n"An uncommonly vicious swashbuckling romp, absolutely entertaining and fantastically illustrated." 
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Library Journal (starred review)\n"A good old-fashioned 18th-century pirate yarn filled with depravity, random violence, cruelty, and laughs. The story's cheerfully nihilistic approach may not be for all tastes, but it serves up a visceral satire for those that can stomach it." 
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Publishers Weekly\n"Schrauwen is one of the most provocative creators in the world of comics today." 
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NPR Books 
 About the Author 
Jérôme Mulot is best known for his comics collaborations with Ruppert; each French artist both writes and draws. The two met at the National School of art in Dijon and began publishing their creations in their fanzine 
Del Adventure. Together they won the Revelation Prize from the Angouleme International Comics Festival for 
Barrel of Monkeys (Panier de Singe). They began publishing the crime fiction 
le Grande Odalisque in 2012.\nOlivier Schrauwen was born in Belgium in 1977 and studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, and comics at the Saint Luc in Brussels. He currently lives in Berlin.\nFlorent Ruppert is a French comics writer and artist who frequently collaborates with Mulot. The two met at the National School of art in Dijon and began publishing their creations in their fanzine 
Del Adventure. Together, they won the Revelation Prize from the Angouleme International Comics Festival for 
Barrel of Monkeys ( 
Panier de Singe). They began publishing the crime fiction 
le Grande Odalisque in 2012.\nJenna Allen is a freelance translator based in Colorado.

Portrait of a Drunk

Mulot, Jérôme

Ruppert, Florent

Fantagraphics

Sunday

In this wordless tale, the young human boy Mowgli lives alone in the jungle. When he befriends an orangutan, Mowgli thinks he has found his lifemate. But Mowgli still wonders if there any other creatures that look like him. Mowgli sets out on a journey through the jungle, encountering all types of creatures and having numerous adventures. A fantastic use of layout and design by critically-acclaimed Olivier "Ollie" Schrauwen, printed in orange and blue spot colors. * Nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award

Mowgli's Mirror

Retrofit Comics LLC

Le Miroir de Mowgli

ASSOCIATION

Der Mann, der seinen Bart wachsen ließ

Reprodukt

Arsène Schrauwen 2

Fulgencio Pimentel S.L.

Mowgli en el espejo

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