Name: Homeward Bound
SKU: 50827909
Price: 1117.00 TWD
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Author: Robert Crumb
ISBN: 9781684421374

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Physical Book

Author

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Publisher

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2.4 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9781684421374

Synopsis "Homeward Bound "

Picking up where Jonathan Shaw's critically-acclaimed Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist left off, Homeward Bound resumes the story of Cigano, the tattoo man. Cigano continues his full-body tattoo work on a young acolyte, Jaco, who eagerly soaks up his tales. Homeward Bound continues charting the amazing course of a life measured in extremes and all the singular people, exotic places, and outrageous events that shaped it into a survivor's tale of epic proportions. In its pages, Shaw takes the reader deeper than ever before, not only into the bizarre recesses of his extraordinary mind and incredible adventures, but also into the strange and magical process of memoir writing itself.Homeward Bound is proof positive that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. As Shaw's old friend and literary mentor Charles Bukowski once told him, most of this book would have to be lived before it could be written. In that sense, Homeward Bound is much more than a compelling, page-turning chronicle of a popular working-class hero's creative evolution. It is a multicolored, cinematic modern-day Odyssey, written in blood, ink and tears - a kaleidoscopic, visionary roadmap to the journey of the human soul.

Robert Crumb

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Robert Crumb (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and musician. He was one of the founders of the underground comic movement and is perhaps the most prominent figure of that movement. Although he is one of the best-known comic book authors, his career has always developed outside the mainstream industry.

As a musician, he was part of the band R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, dedicated to the dissemination of American popular music composed in the 1920s.

Crumb's graphic style mixes influences from early comic artists like Billy DeBeck, creator of the Barney Google strip, C.E. Brock, Rube Goldberg, and E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye). The author has also cited among his greatest influences Carl Barks (who drew Disney's Donald Duck comics), Harvey Kurtzman, and John Stanley, the second author of Little Lulu, which he adapted for long comics.

In the ideological field, the commentator Javier Coma observes in Crumb's early comics, "beneath his confrontation with the system, a critical stance towards the sociopolitical degenerations of the protest," noting "Crumb's nostalgic returns to a past anti-urban life, poetized by old customs and genuine popular music."

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