Twice Shy - Softcover

Orff, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681486067 ISBN 13: 9781681486062

Publisher: Alternative Comics, 2019

Synopsis

Twice Shy tells the story of two strangers who have shut themselves down emotionally as a way to cope with their lives. Bob is an artist with a creative block who loses himself in an aimless existence; while Casey suffers from deep-seated anxiety and feelings of abandonment. Brought together through an unexpected circumstance, they begin to open up and trust each other, gradually finding that their fears of being hurt are overcome by the simple joys that they now share. As they tentatively try to build a life together, the harsh realities of the outside world begin to intrude on their happiness, but the experience changes them both in fundamental ways.

About this title

About the Author

Stapling cast-off newsprint from the local small-town newspaper into little books, Joel Orff churned out a thirty-two page comic once a month for most of his childhood. After his first year of college he threw them all out; a decision that he’s still not sure if he regrets. More recently he’s been published in several books and magazines around the world, including the Artisti Allibratori Associati publication Tattoo Comix (Italy), Fahrenheit Magazine (Denmark), The Comix Compendium from Mangijin Books, The Stranger weekly newspaper in Seattle, and ‘Heroes of Invention’, which was created for the Minnesota Children’s Museum.

In 2002 Joel Orff was a finalist for the McKnight Foundation Screenwriters Fellowship, and had his first play produced as part of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. In 2004 he was a finalist for the McKnight Screenwriters Fellowship. In 2005, his comic strip ‘Great Moments in Rock ‘n’ Roll’ began running weekly in the California paper Pacific Sun. In 2006 his second graphic novel Waterwise was published in a French translation by editions ça èt là in France. In 2007 editions ça èt là published a French translation of Thunderhead Underground Falls.

Review

On Joel Orff's Thunderhead Underground Falls: "Realizing a story so elemental that its like hasn't been done well since such World War II–set movie tearjerkers as the American The Clock and the Soviet Ballad of a Soldier, Orff is much less histrionic but easily matches those films in expressionist panache." Ray Olson, Booklist *Starred Review*

“Rather than offer the reader a cookie cutter depiction of characters, Orff requires the reader to navigate uncharted terrain, gather bread crumbs, and shed his own light on even the darkest frames.” ― Bookslut

About this edition

• Publisher: Alternative Comics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1681486067
• ISBN 13: 9781681486062
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 132