McCay - Hardcover

Smolderen, Thierry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785868853 ISBN 13: 9781785868856

Publisher: Titan Comics, 2018

Synopsis

Get ready for a dizzying dive into the "McCay Dimension" with this true and false tribute to the undisputed master of the imagination.

McCay is an invented biography chronicling authentic - though only partially true - stories of the life of the future creator of Little Nemo, Winsor McCay - in which McCay's life is enriched by an imaginary encounter with British mathematician and science fiction writer Charles Hinton.

Hinton, as a mathematician and philosopher, postulates the existence of a fourth spatial dimension - and seeks an artist capable of representing it, one with an innate sense of perspective and a limitless imagination. In Winsor McCay, Hinton finds such a man, and when their imaginations combine, an entirely new world opens up to them both...

About this title

About the Author:

Thierry Smolderen was born in 1954 in Brussels. He has been writing comics since the mid 1980s. A married father of two, Thierry Smolderen has lived in Angoulême since 1994. He teaches scriptwriting and the history of European comics at the École Européenne.

Jean-Philippe Bramanti was born in 1971 and drew his first comics at age 12. After earning a Baccalaureate, he studied at Luminy, Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, then for three years at the BD workshop of the School of Fine Arts of Angouleme.

Review:

"Truly strange and truly wonderful" - The Observer, Best Books of 2018 

"Deeply strange, incredibly fun sf/fantasy noir with artwork that pales only to that of McCay himself" - Library Journal

"A brain-bending book ... peculiarly compelling" - SciFi Now

"Smolderen infuses McCay with a surreal, dreamlike plot ... Bramanti’s art is stunning ... An inspired book in every sense of the word" - Foreword Reviews 

"Will hold you until the final page ... Highly recommended" - Down The Tubes

"The dreamscapes with which Nemo and Fiend interact are rich and full" - The Comics Journal

"Smolderen and Bramanti’s McCay is the stuff that dreams are made of... and magically, much more" - Print Mag

"A captivating broad-strokes plot and fascinating small details ... an accomplished piece of work, and one you can return to many times with equal fascination" - Multiversity Comics

"Full of weird ideas and a pretty keen plot, all wrapped around a compelling (if fictional) portrait of a brilliant cartoonist" - Atomic Junk

About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Comics
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1785868853
• ISBN 13: 9781785868856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232
• Illustrator: Bramanti Jean-Phillipe