Letter to survivors / by Gébé; translated and with an introduction by Edward Gauvin ; english lettering by Francois Vigneault.
"In the blasted ruins of what was once a picture-perfect suburb, nothing stirs--except the postman. Clad in a hazmat suit and mounted on a bicycle, he is still delivering the mail, nuclear apocalypse or no nuclear apocalypse. One family has taken refuge in an underground fallout shelter, and to them he brings--or, rather, shouts through the air vent--a series of odd, anonymous letters. They describe the family's prosperous past life, and then begin to get stranger. . . . This pioneering graphic novel was created in 1981 by famed French cartoonist Gébé, a longtime contributor to Charlie Hebdo, and has never before been available in English. Letter to Survivors is a blackhearted delight, at once a witty metafictional game of stories within stories and a scathing, urgent send-up of consumerist excess and nuclear peril: funnier, and scarier, than ever"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681372402
- ISBN: 1681372401
- Physical Description: xiii, 111 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
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General Note: | First published in French as Lettre aux survivants by Albin Michel (1981). |
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Subject: | Letter carriers > Comic books, strips, etc. Families > Comic books, strips, etc. Survival > Comic books, strips, etc. Comic books, strips, etc > France > Translations into English. |
Genre: | Graphic novels. Science fiction comics. Apocalyptic comics. Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. Graphic novels. |
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