Arsene Schrauwen

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by Olivier Schrauwen

Utopia comes with a price in this European cartoonist’s graphic novel debut inspired by his mid-century colonialist grandfather.

Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781606997307

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Utopia comes with a price in this European cartoonist’s graphic novel debut inspired by his mid-century colonialist grandfather.

In 1947, the author’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 — but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin’s wife, Marieke. Whether delirious from love or a fever-inducing jungle virus, Arsene’s loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the graphic novel reader’s uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsene. This first full-length graphic novel from the critically-acclaimed Olivier Schrauwen is an engrossing, sometimes funny, slightly surreal and often beautiful narrative.

256 pages, full color hardcover with color covers
Fantagraphics, 2014

Additional information

Weight 27 oz
Dimensions 10 × 7 × 1 in
by

Olivier Schrauwen

ISBN

978-1606997307