Beverly
Nick Drnaso の『Beverly』は、郊外に生きる若者たちのぎこちない会話と不安を淡々と描くグラフィックノベルである。日常の断片が少しずつずれ、抑え込まれた感情や暴力の気配が静かに浮かび上がる。
作品情報
郊外の日常に潜む不安と孤立を描くグラフィックノベル。
Drawn & Quarterly から刊行されたデビュー作で、短いエピソードを積み重ねながら、現代アメリカの郊外に漂う疎外感を描く。抑制された線と静かな構成が、登場人物たちの不穏さを際立たせている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
- 発売日
- 2016-01-26
- ページ数
- 133ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 19.58 x 1.55 x 24.28 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781770462250
- ISBN-10
- 1770462252
- 価格
- 5007 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 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.
レビュー
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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.
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