Overview
""Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world."" -Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy is a beautifully painted all-ages graphic novel exploring imagination: its power and its dark side. Marzena ""Marzi"" Sowa is a Polish graphic novelist living in France. She was born in 1979 in the small industrial city Stalowa Wola. She left her country in 2001 and settled in Bordeaux. Marzi, her graphic memoir about childhood in communist Poland, was published by Vertigo in 2011. The book has been translated in several languages. Marzi loves dictionaries, is afraid of spiders, and is crazy about skateboarding and cheesecake. Berenika Koomycka is a cartoonist, sculptor, and illustrator. In 2011, she received the Grand Prix at the odz International Comics Festival. She lives in Poland.
Full Product Details
Author: Marzena Sowa ,
Berenika Kolomycka
Publisher: Uncivilized Books
Imprint: Uncivilized Books
Dimensions:
Width: 17.70cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781941250303
ISBN 10: 1941250300
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 18 October 2018
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Reviews
“Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world.” — Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy
Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world. - Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy
Author Information
Marzena Sowa is a Polish graphic novelist living in France. She was born in 1979, in a small industrial city, Stalowa Wola (Poland). She left her country in 2001 and settled in Bordeaux. Since 2006, she has lived partly in France, in a small village in Champagne, and partly in Belgium (Brussels). In collaboration with Sylvain Savoia, she published one comic book series Marzi which tells the story of her childhood in the communist Poland. The book has been translated in several languages, including English. Berenika Kołomycka is a cartoonist, sculptor, illustrator. In 2011, she received the Grand Prix at the Łodz International Comics Festival. She lives in Poland.
