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  1 Adventures of a Japanese Businessman [Graphic Novel]
Author: Domingo, Jose Illustrator: Domingo, Jose
 
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Class: 741.5952
Age: 16-19
Language: English
Descriptors: Translation, Graphic Novel
LC: PZ7.7
Print Run: 3000
ISBN-13: 9781907704536
LCCN: BD14098057
Imprint: Nobrow Press
Pub Date: 04/02/2013
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $29.99
  Hardcover
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 34 cm H 13.19", W 9.63", D 0.73", 2.4344 lbs.
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Brodart Sources: Brodart's Graphic Novels: Fantasy
Brodart's Graphic Novels: Humor
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TIPS Subjects: Fantasy
BISAC Subjects: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Humorous
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy / General
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary
LC Subjects: Businessmen, Cartoons and comics
Businessmen, Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
Japan, Cartoons and comics
Japan, Comic books, strips, etc
SEARS Subjects: Businessmen, Cartoons and caricatures
Graphic novels
Japan, Cartoons and caricatures
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Publisher Annotations | 11/19/2013
A Japanese businessman heads home after a regular day at the office. He doesn't know it yet, but a long succession of strange and fantastical events is about to be thrown at him. This simple plot is the basis of the book, and everything that happens in each panel is the inspiration for the next one forming a free flowing rocking and rolling adventure with some of the most eye-catching artwork you will see this year.
Journal Reviews
Library Journal | 11/15/2013
Imagine the strange things that happen in manga, and then imagine them (and more) happening in the life of one unfortunate "salaryman." Concatenating disasters unroll with rollicking spontaneity that is both fascinating and hilarious, as each adventure follows seamlessly but surprisingly from the last. Spanish artist Domingo (Cuimnh) created the wordless story one vignette at a time, deciding what came next based on the outcome of what came before, astonishing both himself and certainly the reader. On this fatal afternoon, a Japanese businessman barely escapes a yakuza (members of an organized crime cartel) shoot-out, then manages to dodge a falling giant sushi sign, only to inhale biotech fumes that turn him into a naked blue giant. Morphing back to normal size, he takes fresh clothes from a conveniently placed clothesline, then goes to the house to explain--but it's filled with human corpses and body parts! And so it goes, until a doubled ending beguilingly ties up several loose ends from earlier in the story. VERDICT Winner of the Best Book Award at the 2012 Ficomic Festival in Barcelona, Spain, Domingo's detailed and colorful satire excels as an exercise in storytelling and as a wild ride for adventurous readers; older teen and up.--M.C. Martha Cornog. 120p. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013.
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