You Don't Say

by Nate Powell

Overview

A celebrity glares. A community burns. A child’s heart breaks. A recipe summons a ghost. A dying woman makes her peace. An art form sustains the spirit. In You Don’t Say award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell -- of the #1 New York Times Bestseller March: Book One, and the Eisner Award-Winning “Graphic Novel of the Year” Swallow Me Whole -- collects a decade of powerful short works. Autobiography, fiction, essay comics, collaborations, and more fill these thoughtful, pitch-black pages, comprising rare and previously unreleased material from 2004-2013.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781623027834
Publisher:	Idea & Design Works, LLC
Publication date:	05/27/2015
Series:	You Don't Say
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	62 MB
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Editorial Reviews

04/06/2015
After storming the bestseller lists with March, his cinematic retelling of the civil rights movement, Powell returns to the more intimate and soulful scale of his earlier work (Swallow Me Whole) in this gathering of nearly a decade’s worth of shorter pieces. The quietude of the smalltown settings clash with the stories’ roiling internal chaos. The first four pieces are autobiographical, tracking his peripatetic lifestyle and work with developmentally disabled adults, and these pieces succeed as a unified rumination on meaning and isolation. Powell’s punk ideals (he ran an indie record label for 15 years and played in bands) are a double-edged sword: they push him toward finding meaning in everyday life, but lead him to be extremely hard on himself. Powell’s powerful art eschews gentle shading for sharp lines and inky black pools that frame the emotional context, though they sometimes fail to properly distinguish the characters. But when the art and text come together—as in the dreamy impressions of “Fluke,” in which Powell revisits the deserted corners of his hometown of Little Rock—everything works. (June)

Publishers Weekly