Single Hardcover ? Picture Book, October 5, 2021

This existential graphic novel draws us into the world of a Prague thirty-something who's just been dumped by his longtime girlfriend. What does it mean to be single at a time when everyone around you is starting families? Is it a blessing or a curse? And what to do now? Think about the past, seek yourself, try to redefine your existence? A lot of questions, not a lot of answers. The single is free, but against his will. And it's this very freedom which brings him stories and experiences which he'd never go through otherwise. A strange trip to Rome with a friend that didn't go as planned. A brief but nonetheless intense relationship with a racist soccer fan. And many other scenes which play out in his head as memories during a purgative voyage across the Arctic Ocean. The single is like an iceberg waiting for a fateful Titanic to strike.

Jirí Franta is a Master of Fine Arts, visual artist and illustrator based in Prague. He has been drawing and painting all his life. Devoted to painting, he is also involved with installation art, objects or video productions. He is a member of the Rafani art group and partner in the Franta-Böhm art duo as well as founder of the comics magazine KIX. He has exhibited in the Czech Republic and abroad and has been the finalist for the prestigious Jindrich Chalupecký Award several times, won Magnesia Litera Award for best Children Book in 2015.