Pantheon Drops Its David B. Bomb



January isn't generally when publishers drop potential comics works of the year, but Pantheon's release of the Epileptic has to be considered one of the bigger publishing events of a 2005 that's barely begun. In terms of pedigree, David B's beautifully realized memoir can draw on North American alt-comics (the first half was published in English to a some success in that market just a couple of years ago and the artist is now doing a book through Drawn and Quarterly) and, more properly, the wave of post-1990 European comics that changed reader's perceptions of the French comics market.

Without a distinct feature-article hook, it may also serve as a referendum on publisher Pantheon's ability to sell graphic novels based solely on their artistic merit.

Here's a paper on David B.'s work, an interview/profile by Andrew Arnold at Time.comix, a review by Alan David Doane and some discussion about potential problems with the book jacket.
 
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