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1956 Book One: Sweet Sweet Little Ramona
Notorious alt/indy comix legend Steve Lafler (BugHouse, Dog Boy, Buzzard) returns with the story of Jack, Susie, and of course Ramona. We travel to Manhattan of 1956 to meet our players, who haunt the wholesale Garment District by day, and the legendary jazz clubs of 52nd Street by night.
Jack and Susie, junior buyers for the McCurdy's chain of department stores, are ambitious kids trying to make their mark as they vie for the position of Chief Buyer. And hey, maybe they happen to fall in love on the side? We'll see!
Ramona hails from Texas, a young trans woman looking to be herself in the atmosphere of 1950s New York City. It ain't easy! She descends into working the streets to support herself while she dreams of becoming a fashion model.
Against this backdrop, our cast of players congregate in the jazz clubs at night and begin to scheme. Are they competing with each other? Or do they work together to realize their dreams?
Book Details
- Publisher: Cat-Head Comics
- Publish Date: Oct 31st, 2020
- Pages: 58
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.12in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9781734108729
- Categories: • General
Praise for this book
The really remarkable thing, though, is that despite some of this book's admittedly lurid subject matter (our boys from the buying office do not behave themselves), there's an elegance to it all, even a romanticism. A lot of that is down to Lafler's admittedly gorgeous and smooth line, his attention to detail seldom wavering.
-Ryan Carey, Four Color Apocalypse
Lafler's latest book, 1956, features a whole tableaux of goodfella types, all of them working various middle management jobs in the Garment biz, an industry with just enough of a glimmer of glamour to be suitable for these big city gentlemen. Lafler mixes the whimsical with the gritty. His style is clean lines in the service of a loose and street smart sensibility that brings to mind such greats as the Hernandez brothers and Kim Deitch. It's quirky, idiosyncratic, and very much alt-comics.
-Henry Chamberlain, Comics Grinder