Maple Terrace

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Maple Terrace - Van Sciver, Noah
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From a multiple-award-winning cartoonist, Noah Van Sciver, comes Maple Terrace, a new autobiographical graphic novel. Based on the author's childhood, Maple Terrace unfolds a tale of big money comic-collecting craze of the early 90s as seen from the ground floor. In a time when superheroes were oversized, adorned with massive guns, and countless pouches, comic books were currency! Young investors struggled to collect every cover gimmick under the sun--embossed-metallic ink-holographic foil--hoping they someday would pay for their college education. Brutally hilarious, Maple Terrace shines a light on the strange intersection between poverty and speculative comic book craze of the 90s.
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Price
$24.95  $23.20
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
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Pages
120
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Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781941250594

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About the Author
Noah Van Sciver is a multiple award-winning cartoonist who first came to comic readers' attention with his Eisner-nominated comic book series Blammo. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Wired, The Believer, the Best American Comics, and countless graphic anthologies. Van Sciver was a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has written and drawn numerous bestselling graphic novels, including One Dirty Tree, the Fante Bukowski: Struggling Writer series for Fantagraphics books, and Joseph Smith And The Mormons for Abrams in 2022. In 2015 he was the Artist in Residence/fellow at the Center For Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. His books and comics have been translated into more than six languages worldwide.
Reviews
Praise for One Dirty Tree:


Association for Mormon Letters Awards Best Graphic Novel

Eisner Awards Nomination Best Reality-Based Work

INDIES Awards Finalist

"Van Sciver also powerfully illustrates the scars raked across an adult life by a chaotic upbringing." -- Publishers Weekly

"Van Sciver's imagery has an uncanny, if deceptively casual, ability to communicate the seems-like-forever stretches of his anxiety and hunger in early adolescence." -- Denver Post

"A quote by Aristotle begins the book: "Give me a child until he is seven, and I will show you the man." Honestly and artistically, One Dirty Tree demonstrates the truth of that aphorism." -- Foreword Reviews

"An autobiographical triumph! I personally believe Noah will come to be regarded as one of the 21st Century's great North American 'cartoonists' and I for one will be able to say I was there laughing at him, I mean lauding him, right from the start!" -- Page 45

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