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New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer -- moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which Jillian has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Jillian deftly plays superhero and high school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: the SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep-school for mutants and witches but their paranormal abilities take a back seat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her non-existent modeling career; in another the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crushee, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Jillian's jokes are precise and devastating. SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips that conclude Jillian's account of life at the Academy.
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SuperMutant Magic Academy isnot just weird, it's oftentimes so completely bonkers and out-there that it leaves you a little shell-shocked. And believe me, that is a huge, huge compliment. - --Autostraddle
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Jillian Tamaki is a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist. Her illustrations have won gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. Tamaki is the co-creator of the graphic novel Skim, which was listed as one of the New York Times' Best Illustrated Books of 2008 and was nominated for four Eisner Awards and a Governor General's Literary Award. This One Summer, her second co-authored work with Mariko Tamaki, was published in mid-2014 and has spent over a month on the New York Times best-seller list. Her two books of personal work are Gilded Lilies and Indoor Voice.
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- PublisherDENOEL
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 2207134709
- ISBN 13 9782207134702
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. L'adolescence est une forme de vie mutante. Forte de cette évidence, l'auteure canadienne Jillian Tamaki ( Skim , Cet été-là ) imagine une université d'un genre un peu spécial, dédiée à des élèves dotés de pouvoirs paranormaux.Harry Potter ? Oui mais non. Wendy, Marsha, Cheddar, Frances, le Garçon Éternel ne fréquentent pas cette " école des petits sorciers " pour servir de vastes desseins métaphysiques. Pour eux, l'af rontement du Bien et du Mal se limite à la gestion de leurs af res de teenagers. Les jalousies, les peines de coeur, les beuveries, les montées de sève et poussées de croissance, les ra- vages de l'acné, l'ennui, la pénible découverte de soi et autres angoisses exis- tentielles sont les seules préoccupations de ces X-Men en herbe. La gamme de leurs fantastiques pouvoirs (télépathie, télékinésie, invisibilité, immorta- lité, etc.) se décline au quotidien et ne sert qu'à résoudre (ou à compliquer) les problèmes habituels de leur classe d'âge.Le résultat est une histoire chorale, bâtie autour d'une poignée de person- nages irrésistibles. L'humour subtil de Tamaki, sa passion conf rmée de livre en livre pour l'exploration de l'adolescence, la f nesse et l'acuité de son oeil, contribuent à faire de SuperMutant Magic Academy un graphic novel lui- même mutant. Dessinatrice hors pair, l'artiste nippo-canadienne fusionne toutes sortes de manières narratives et graphiques. La narration combine le laconisme du comic strip façon Peanuts et l'architecture savante des séries TV actuelles. Le trait, d'une incroyable assurance, associe la nervosité du manga à la versatilité crue des webcomics. C'est d'ailleurs ce support qui a vu naître le projet. Pendant quatre ans Tamaki a publié ses pages on-line.Pour l'édition papier, elle a rajouté quarante planches de facture plus clas- sique. Au total, le livre donne à voir l'immense étendue de son talent et la bienveillance de son regard sur l'âge le plus complexe (et complexé) de la vie humaine. - Nombre de page(s) : 280 - Poids : 427g - Langue : ANGLAIS (CANADA) - Genre : Bandes dessinées adultes / Comics DENOEL GRAPHIC. Seller Inventory # N9782207134702
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