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Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman
Contributor(s): Brown, Brian Box (Author)
ISBN: 1626723168     ISBN-13: 9781626723160
Publisher: First Second
OUR PRICE:   $17.85  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2017941163
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages
 
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2019 Eisner Award Winner for Best Reality-Based Work

Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive--a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and thoughtful person, he's ironically best remembered for his various contemptible personas, which were so committed and so convincing that all but his closest family and friends were completely taken in.

Why would someone so gentle-natured and sensitive build an entire career seeking the hatred of his audience? What drives a performer to solicit that reaction? With the same nuance and sympathy with which he approached Andre the Giant in his 2014 biography, graphic novelist Box Brown's Is This Guy For Real? takes on the complex and often hilarious life of Andy Kaufman.

Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Brian "box": - Box Brown is an Ignatz Award--winning cartoonist, illustrator, and comic publisher from Philadelphia. His books include the New York Times--bestselling Andre the Giant: Life and Legend and Tetris. Box Brown's independent comics publishing house, Retrofit Comics, was launched in 2011.Brown, Brian: - Box Brown is an Ignatz Award-winning American cartoonist best known for the comic Bellen! and the winner of a Xeric Grant for the comic Love Is a Peculiar Type of Thing. A passionate proponent of the serial comics format, Brown runs the micropress Retrofit, dedicated to supporting independent serial comics' work. His books include Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. He is also a life-long professional wrestling fan.