| The Cabbie: Book One Contributor(s): Martí (Author), Spiegelman, Art (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1606994506 ISBN-13: 9781606994504 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books OUR PRICE: $16.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Crime & Mystery - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary |
| Dewey: 741.5 |
| LCCN: 2014378107 |
| Series: Cabbie |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.8" W x 11.5" (1.40 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sergio Leone's retooling of classic westerns for his "spaghetti westerns"... Stieg Larsson's striking take on the serial killer/mystery thriller in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo... And for that matter ABBA's fiendishly catchy appropriation of American pop music. Sometimes it takes Europeans to make gold of tuckered-out American tropes. Add to those instances of inspired global cross-pollination the Spanish cartoonist Martí's eye-popping The Cabbie, which spins off Martin Scorsese's sordid urban-justice drama Taxi Driver with a graphic style that unapologetically appropriates and even refines the brutal slabs of black, squashed perspectives, and grotesque approach to human physiognomy (and its ability to withstand punishment) that define Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. And as Art Spiegelman (who was the first to publish Martí's work in English, in RAW magazine) notes in his introduction, while "Gould's graphic black and white precision and his diagrammatic clarity live on in Martí's work," he points out that "more interestingly, perhaps, so does Gould's depravity." Indeed, if anything, The Cabbie is even more savage than the legendarily brutal Dick Tracy, with its pimps, whores, petty thieves, corrupt businessmen, all swirling around the ingenuously violent "Cabbie" whose self-administered "upstanding citizen" status entitles him -- in his view -- to even more shocking acts of violence -- especially on his quest for the stolen coffin of his father, which he's told includes his entire inheritance! |
Contributor Bio(s): Marti: - Born in 1955, Martí has been published in the anthologies RAW, Drawn and Quarterly, and Pictopia; an issue of his solo comic Calvario Hills, which appeared under the "Ignatz" imprint from Fantagraphics in 2007, revived the Cabbie for a new adventure.Spiegelman, Art: - Art Spiegelman is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning creator of Maus. He's also a groundbreaking editor, whose recent projects include the Toon books line of graphic novels for school libraries, as well as the 1980s seminal comics anthology Raw, which introduced cartoonists like Charles Burns and helped kickstart the alternative comics movement. He's long been associated with the New Yorker. |