Beverly
Nick Drnaso's Beverly is a graphic novel that quietly follows awkward conversations and unease among young people in the suburbs. As fragments of everyday life drift out of alignment, suppressed emotion and the threat of violence slowly surface.
Work Information
A graphic novel about the anxiety and isolation hidden inside suburban life.
Published by Drawn & Quarterly, this debut work builds a portrait of alienation in contemporary American suburbia through a series of short episodes. Its restrained linework and quiet structure sharpen the unease surrounding the characters.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
- Published
- 2016-01-26
- Pages
- 133 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 19.58 x 1.55 x 24.28 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781770462250
- ISBN-10
- 1770462252
- Price
- 5007 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Novels
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.
Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and coedited the second and third issue of Linework , Columbia College's annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.
Reviews
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C'était un cadeau qui a beaucoup plu ! De belles couleurs et de belles histoires parlé en anglais et facile à comprendre!
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Absolutely fantastic debut from Nick Drnaso. Everything about Beverly - from the simplistic illustration, the wonderfully nihilistic intertwined plots, to even the page feel and weight of the paper - is delightful. I finished it in one sitting, but the carefully connected storylines definitely leaves the opportunity for another read.
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I haven't really experienced anything like this before. Highly recommended for anyone who appreciates art.
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A collection of short stories with some interesting themes running through them. I feel the author wants us to form our own opinions on each situation. I enjoyed the art and dialogue, a lot of care went into this book. Top effort.
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I was quite boring to be honest...I didn't like it at all... I don't see how they have that good reviews.