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The Heavy Hand

$14.00

by Chris Cilla

Take an inky road trip with a liar (Alvin Crabshack) into the generally ignored world of mask wearing freaks and monsters both dead and alive. Folk tales are made up by regular schmucks in party houses, caves and vans. Are you concerned about the eggs? Alvin has a story for whoever he meets, including you.

Sparkplug Books
ISBN: 9780979746581
SKU: 9780979746581 Categories: , Product ID: 23986

Description

Throw in the Towel. The duplicitous Alvin Crabshack finds himself slipping into mysterious adventure, even as he pretends to ignore it. Biology meets folklore in a subterranean kitchen, where a shirtless, bearded man fires his only employee before the job has begun. Will the goat outpace man in the evolutionary marathon? Boring parties and annoyed girlfriends are no match for the vacuum of the future. Masked agents are forcing the final heat wave into faked perspective and vice versa, while a stranger rides a patchwork donkey. Can you give me a ride? What next?

“There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about comics – what they are, what they aren’t: “literary”, “Art”, etc etc. That’s all fine, but sometimes we get books like “The Heavy Hand” by cartoonists like Chris Cilla, and all of that talk is rendered moot – this book is a ridiculously potent distillation of Cilla’s singular comic book worldview: strange, dark, thick, big-nosed, slightly nightmarish and totally immersive — this is PURE COMICS, the real deal. I’ve long suspected that Chris Cilla is one of the best cartoonists around, and now the proof is here, for all to see. I know I will not read a better comic this year (and maybe not this decade). ‘The Heavy Hand’ is a triumph.” Zak Sally, Recidivist, Sammy the Mouse

“I really enjoyed The Heavy Hand. There is a level of high strangeness throughout the book. Chris Cilla is a serious artist who happens to draw funny, and his work has a comic intensity that is most appealing. It’s an all-around great effort.”  Gerald Jablonski

108 pages. Black and white with color covers.
Sparkplug Books, 2010

Additional information

Weight 8 oz
Dimensions 9 × 6 × 0.25 in
ISBN

9789797465827

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