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The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

In The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue, fueled by inescapable surges of bravery. This odyssey is aptly and expertly versified into an ekphrastic epic by former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Readers of all ages will be entertained by the sights, tension, suspense, and humor of this unique collection.

Yet here’s a leaf! And here’s a boat!
And here’s the cure for the chill of doubt!
Why should not hope, however odd,
Be just as strong, no, stronger than gods?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

James Kochalka is the author and illustrator of more than forty graphic novels. He has won two Eisner Awards, one Harvey Award, and four Ignatz Awards. In 2011 he was named the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He also has a separate career as a rock star, performing with his band James Kochalka Superstar. In 2007, Rolling Stone named his song “Britney’s Silver Can” one of the 100 Best Songs of the year.

Sydney Lea, founding editor of New England Review, is author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019). A former Vermont Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer finalist, he has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays.

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The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

In The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue, fueled by inescapable surges of bravery. This odyssey is aptly and expertly versified into an ekphrastic epic by former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Readers of all ages will be entertained by the sights, tension, suspense, and humor of this unique collection.

Yet here’s a leaf! And here’s a boat!
And here’s the cure for the chill of doubt!
Why should not hope, however odd,
Be just as strong, no, stronger than gods?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

James Kochalka is the author and illustrator of more than forty graphic novels. He has won two Eisner Awards, one Harvey Award, and four Ignatz Awards. In 2011 he was named the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He also has a separate career as a rock star, performing with his band James Kochalka Superstar. In 2007, Rolling Stone named his song “Britney’s Silver Can” one of the 100 Best Songs of the year.

Sydney Lea, founding editor of New England Review, is author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019). A former Vermont Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer finalist, he has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays.

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The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy: An Illustrated Epic

Overview

In The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure of rescue, fueled by inescapable surges of bravery. This odyssey is aptly and expertly versified into an ekphrastic epic by former Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea. Readers of all ages will be entertained by the sights, tension, suspense, and humor of this unique collection.

Yet here’s a leaf! And here’s a boat!
And here’s the cure for the chill of doubt!
Why should not hope, however odd,
Be just as strong, no, stronger than gods?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

James Kochalka is the author and illustrator of more than forty graphic novels. He has won two Eisner Awards, one Harvey Award, and four Ignatz Awards. In 2011 he was named the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He also has a separate career as a rock star, performing with his band James Kochalka Superstar. In 2007, Rolling Stone named his song “Britney’s Silver Can” one of the 100 Best Songs of the year.

Sydney Lea, founding editor of New England Review, is author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019). A former Vermont Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer finalist, he has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781773490496
Publisher: Word Galaxy
Publication date: 11/20/2020
Pages: 116
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Sydney Lea, founding editor of New England Review, is author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Here (Four Way Books, 2019). A former Vermont Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer finalist, he has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays.




James Kochalka is the author and illustrator of more than forty graphic novels. He has won two Eisner Awards, one Harvey Award, and four Ignatz Awards. In 2011 he was named the first Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont. He also has a separate career as a rock star, performing with his band James Kochalka Superstar. In 2007, Rolling Stone named his song "Britney's Silver Can" one of the 100 Best Songs of the year.

Table of Contents

1. “Let’s pretend that we are gods for this brief instant” 2

2. “If indeed we did have godlike eyes” 4

3. “Wormboy’s a Romantic, after all” 6

4. “Or rather an uncertain dream” 8

5. “No more than a droplet” 10

6. “And strikes our hero. He pops to life” 12

7. “A change of place will alter things” 14

8. “He expects more struggle piercing through drenched springtime soil” 16

9. “No wonder his burrow had gotten so humid! Sunlight” 18

10. “Heat, indeed! At once, the three” 20

11. “Without a word, his two friends now observe” 22

12. “Yes, why does he lag behind? He can’t quite figure” 24

13. “Dark horror sweeps in, at first mere shadow” 26

14. “Muck and Flick fade into a sky” 28

15. “Wormboy, dizzy with grief, careens” 30

16. “Or arethey finally, really and truly, gone? 32

17. “The bird will make a quick meal of them” 34

18. “But his mind’s a merry-go-round” 36

19. “That same far tree emits a sudden gleam, hot-white” 38

20. “Not that he doesn’t, not at all that he doesn’t” 40

21. “So much effort is not to be wasted” 42

22. “Dear friends are waiting. Dear, dear friends are waiting” 44

23. “Yet here’s a leaf! And here’s a boat!” 46

24. “Even each breath of wind seems to steer him right” 48

25. “And then, as the googly eyes of a water-monster” 50

26. “O enough of your false philosophy!” 52

27. “And finally of course” 54

28. “But now the fish: it seems less predator than—what?” 56

29. “Reader, forgive my own too rosy fictions” 58

30. “It was not only Wormboy who saw visions” 60

31. “But what?” 62

32. “The fish is gone in fact before our bravo can thank him” 64

33. “But hope is resurrected. No, hope leaps up” 66

34. “Wormboy dreams of wings to bear him” 68

35. “Indeed, our hero would content himself” 70

36. “Phantasmagorical imagery” 72

37. “Upward” 74

38. “into the unknown” 76

39. “his thoughts come free” 78

40. “If Wormboy had hands, he’d slap himself” 80

41. “Again, brave Wormboy reckons, everything” 82

42. “More struggle awaits. We might behold him here” 84

43. “Wormboy’s burrow-dream” 86

44. “We’ve rightly praised the epic nature” 88

45. “Though our Wormboy seemed heroic indeed” 90

46. “The ride feels so languorous! There’s time to reflect. He doesn’t know” 92

47. “No matter. Together. The concept 94

48. “For—damn!—they rocket off again, his cherished friends” 96

49. “Wormboy knows and feels it, but knows not how to feel” 98

50. “‘Are we all now beyond the sky?’ Brave Wormboy speaks aloud” 100

51. “Wherever there may be. And so long as up is up, he concludes” 102

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