Coin-Op Comics Anthology: 1997-2017
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
This first-ever collection by the award-winning team of siblings Peter and Maria Hoey encompasses the very best of their inventive and mysterious comics. The compilation ranges from the Hoeys’ early comics in Blab! Magazine to their groundbreaking newest series, Coin-Op. All in all, it’s more than twenty short stories and vignettes—about music and film, the comic and the absurd, the past and the future—all sparkling with innovative storytelling and design.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This spectacular volume collects 20 years of comics self-published in the Hoeys' own titular series as well as in Blab. The result is impressive not only because of the sibling team's skill as illustrators but also the thoughtful construction of each piece, and their rich production values. The Hoeys' art deco aesthetic is driven by their interest in jazz, classic cinema, and pioneering animation; however, their storytelling dips into formal, fractured experiments. In "The Windy Parade," the 12-panel pages tell different stories depending on if they're read one at a time or as a whole. "Une Lune Andalouse" (cowritten by C.P. Freund) is a mash-up of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window with Luis Bunuel and Salvadore Dali's Un Chien Andalou, merging the suspense of the former with the transgressive elements of the latter, all while emphasizing the films' common element of voyeurism. The running "Saltz and Pepz" strips are a tribute to Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comics, but with a nasty, modern sensibility. "Valse Mecanique" (again, co-written by Freund) limns the tenuous relationship between man and machine, inspired by Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. Each page is a feast for the eyes. This is a striking assemblage of two decades of challenging, entertaining, and crisply beautiful stories. (June)