
Stroppy
Marc Bell(Author)
Drawn and Quarterly (Publisher)
Published on 11. August 2015
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-77046-205-2 (ISBN)
Description
Enter the strange and wordplay-loving world of cartoonist and fine artist Marc Bell (Shrimpy and Paul, Hot Potatoe [sic]), where the All-Star Schnauzer Band runs things and tiny beings hold signs saying It's under control. Our hapless hero Stroppy is minding his business, working a menial job in one of Monsieur Moustache's factories, when a muscular fellah named Sean blocks up the assembly line. Sean's there to promote an All-Star Schnauzer Band-organized songwriting contest, which he does enthusiastically, and at the expense of Stroppy's livelihood, home, and face. In hopes for a cash prize, Stroppy submits a work by his friend Clancy The Poet to the contest. Mishaps and hilarity ensue and Stroppy is forced to go deep into the heart of Schnauzer territory to rescue his poet friend. Stroppy is Marc Bell's triumphant return to comics; it's also his first full-length graphic novella, one that thrums with jokes, hashtags, and made-up song lyrics. Densely detailed not-so-secret underground societies, little robots, and heavy weight humdingers leap off the page in full colour. With Stroppy, Bell continues to explode the divide between fine art, doodling, and comics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
full colour
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77046-205-2 (9781770462052)
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Person
Marc Bell was born in London, Ontario, and has befuddled and bemused his readers for almost twenty years. He is the author of Stroppy, Hot Potatoe, Pure Pajamas, and Shrimpy and Paul and Friends. His comics have appeared in many Canadian weeklies, Vice, and L.A. Weekly. He is a twin.