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Author: Jason Little
Publisher: Uncivilized Books
Imprint: Uncivilized Books
Dimensions:
Width: 21.50cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 10.10cm
Weight: 0.240kg
ISBN: 9781941250020
ISBN 10: 1941250025
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 04 June 2015
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
What makes Little's approach and execution so impactful is the way it subverts the wacky expectations of the medium. Chestnuts like pratfalls, farts and dentures flying out of mouths are coupled with their real-life spouses: gruesome compound fractures, life-threatening food poisoning, and gory, debilitating oral surgery. This dichotomy is most deftly rendered when the protagonist's frustrating loss of a belt leads to a series of trouser drops presented simultaneously with punch-line rhythm and a sense of heartbreaking hopelessness. --The Chicago Tribune When we talk about something being human or a universal experience, what we hope to mean is that there are things--emotions and feelings, regardless of how they're gotten to, that bind us through basic empathy: shared recognition and understanding of a thing lived or felt. The fundamental achievement of Jason Little's Borb is the manner in which he harnesses that attention, underpinning the trials and tribulations of his main character with equal amounts of mirth and despair. --The Onion A.V. Club Little's elegant linework, minimal dialogue, and unwavering focus on the man's day-to-day struggles are powerful, giving us a gruesome, slapstick view of society's underbelly. -- Publishers Weekly Borb is rich in the way that Little is able to present shocking and dark themes in short, light spurts to give the reader an overall greater depth. While Borb is a comic strip, its impact is novelistic in every sense. --Cleaver Magazine [...] There is no way this book will not get a reaction out of you. It is an early contender for book of the year. --Mental Floss
Little's elegant linework, minimal dialogue, and unwavering focus on the man's day-to-day struggles are powerful, giving us a gruesome, slapstick view of society's underbelly. -- Publishers Weekly [...] There is no way this book will not get a reaction out of you. It is an early contender for book of the year. --Mental Floss
Author Information
Jason Little was born in 1970 and raised in Binghamton, New York. He studied photography at Oberlin College, and now resides in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg and their daughter Zelie Goldberg-Little. He has been drawing cartoons since he was a child. In addition to Shutterbug Follies and Motel Art Improvement Service, he has also written and illustrated the Xeric Award-winning Jack's Luck Runs Out, as well as a number of short works for various cartoon anthologies.
