Ganges #4
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Author: Kevin Huizenga Format: Comic Colors: two-color Year: 2011 ISBN-13: TBA Price: $7.95
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Can you make an exciting comic out of insomnia? Kevin Huizenga rises to the challenge as he depicts his alter ego Glenn Ganges wrestling with sleeplessness, trying to trick it by reading a particularly abstruse book, obsessively breaking his past, present and future life into ever more hallucinatory, complex grids, and wandering around his darkened house trying not to wake up his wife. Also: Loose cat action! Take a sneak peek at the first 3 pages. |
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Reviews and Features:
Ganges #4 Review - Line of Fire Reviews - Comics Bulletin
"...Kevin Huizenga's latest volume of Ganges [is] a work that is so inventive and playful and thoughtful and that offers such a breathtaking level of technical virtuosity that it makes me want to climb up onto a rooftop and scream at the top of my voice 'COMICS ARE FUCKING AWESOME' like some sort of lovesick geeky schoolboy in a bad 1980s teen comedy asking the prom queen to date him." - Jason Sacks, Comics Bulletin
Ganges #4 | The Comics Journal
"Ganges #4 is the Godfather Part II of comics about insomnia: the rare sequel that tops the already excellent original.... Here he returns to the sleeplessness well, but this time around Glenn's mental avatar remains relatively stationary (though Glenn himself does plenty of wandering around the Ganges family manse), allowing Huizenga to instead burrow down deep into some of the most unpleasant sensations a bored and overtired brain is able to conjure. Folks, he does this so well.... The... comic maintains [a] dizzying blend of writing and drawing power, with alarmingly familiar sensations reproduced, and stop-and-marvel visual effects created, on nearly every page." - Sean T. Collins, The Comics Journal
Graphic novels & art comics-August 2011 | Books | Comics Panel | The A.V. Club
"Kevin Huizenga's Ganges #4 continues the artist's increasingly masterful hybrid of direct storytelling and experimental abstraction.... The story suits Huizenga's style, since he can document both the familiar minutiae of daily life and the sense of unreality that takes hold whenever someone is up half the night. Huizenga works in visual motifs of endlessly branching possibilities and spiraling shapes, showing how becoming 'lost in thought' can be terrifying. In short: This is another terrific installment of a series that's fast becoming a classic." - Noel Murray, The A.V. Club
Praise for the series and Kevin Huizenga:
Eisner Award Nominee SealHarvey Award Nominee LogoIgnatz Mouse2010 Eisner Award Nominee: Best Single Issue
2010 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Continuing or Limited Series, Best Single Issue or Story
2010 Ignatz Award Winner: Outstanding Series
#10, Best Comics (First Run or Definitively Collected) of 2009, The Comics Reporter
"...Ganges point[s] to Huizenga's continued evolution as one of the most important young cartoonists working today." - Sequart
"The best [cartoonist] thus far of his generation, Kevin Huizenga, makes amazing comics using a classic everyman, Glenn Ganges." - The Comics Reporter
"...Huizenga, an artist who is more welcoming and easier to embrace than an Adrian Tomine or a Joe Matt, continues to be one of the most exciting voices in any description of what people call comics... Huizenga is able to maturely detail something that's truthful, funny, and gorgeous to look at." - The Factual Opinion
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