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9781897299661

Baloney : A Tale in 3 Symphonic Acts

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  • ISBN13:

    9781897299661

  • ISBN10:

    1897299664

  • Edition: Original
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2009-02-28
  • Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
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Summary

Following White Rapids -- named "Best Comic of 2007" by The Onion -- Pascal Blanchet brings us Bologne. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor, in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town. Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages and soaring solos. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and 40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia's great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red and black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Bologne as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant rates charged by utilities.

Author Biography

Born in 1980, PASCAL BLANCHET works as an illustrator for numerous book and magazine publishers in North America. His first graphic novel published in French, La Fugue, won the 2005 Bédélys Award for best Quebec graphic album of the year. White Rapids was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007.

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