The Green Hand by Daniel Clowes (9781681371078)

Description - The Green Hand by Daniel Clowes

Nicole Claveloux's short stories-originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English-are among the most beautiful comics ever created- whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are very different from our own but oddly recognizable. They are lands filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through, lands in which the very air seems alive and capable of telling you a dirty joke (or the meaning of life).

In the title story, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance-complete with talking shrubbery, infantile gourmands, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird. This new selection is the perfect introduction to the work of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics.

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