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Synopsis
Only 23, Nate Powell has for years self-published his comics, including the popular Walkie Talkie series. Using a bold, stark graphic style and storylines that recall the moody world of a David Lynch movie, he fills traditional comic strip panels with outre characters and inexplicable happenings. Spanning 1998 to 2002, the stories in Tiny Giants are about awkward silences and miscommunication, growing up in the Midwest, and fighting to hold onto the sweetness of life by any means possible. These true stories that never happened” build on vignettes into an otherworldly narrative of disturbing intensity in this debut collection of work from this talented underground comic artist.
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Nate Powell, best known for his Walkie Talkie series, has been self-publishing his comics for years, selling over 20,000 copies of his comics to date without the benefit of formal distribution.
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A cartoonist's cartoonist, Powell employs stunning technique in some of the most complex, elusive stories in the comics medium, approaching the level of narrative abstraction of psychedelic '60s cartoonist Rick Griffin's weird pages full of pop-culturally referential figures speaking only made-up palindromes and exclamation marks. But Powell still draws real people in realistic settings. He pretty much dispenses with plots, though, preferring to interleave incidents to conjure an existential feeling, most often youthful angst engendered by the travails of romantic love and realizations of mortality. Occasionally, he tells a unitary story, as in the volume opener, "Nineteen," in which a black soldier delivers a message to another, presumably dead, soldier's family in a lily-white town. If his young-and-soulful stuff frequently becomes mawkish, his artistic skills make every frame worthwhile. Frame by frame, his work is more varied in every way than that of most other comics artists, yet he unfailingly maintains narrative momentum by carrying over details from one panel to the next, no matter how altered the angle of vision. Brilliant. Ray Olson
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- PublisherSoft Skull Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1887128565
- ISBN 13 9781887128568
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
- IllustratorPowell Nate
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