Parallel Lives

Olivier Schrauwen

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This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed "speculative memoir." Schrauwen's deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

Book Details

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Publish Date: Dec 4th, 2018
Pages: 128
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 10.90in - 7.70in - 0.50in - 1.05lb
EAN: 9781683961406
Recommended age: 16-UP
Categories: • Science Fiction - General

About the Author

Schrauwen, Olivier: - Olivier Schrauwen was born in Belgium in 1977 and studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, and comics at ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels. He currently lives in Berlin. He is the author of the books The Man Who Grew His Beard (2011), Arsène Schrauwen (2014), Parallel Lives (2018), and Sunday (2024).

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A dazzling and disorienting collection of short stories detailing the author's interactions with the future. ... By the final page, it's the reader who has been abducted, by the cartoonist, captivated by witnessing time and space made malleable in Schrauwen's hands.-- "The New Yorker"

A potent volume of linked and mangled autofictions, with delirious color chords you only find in dreams.-- "The New York Times"

In Schrauwen's mind-inverting masterpiece Parallel Lives, the cartoonist's alien abduction branches into a series of funny and frightening psychosexual ruminations on the nature of relationships that feel as fresh and strange as human life actually is.-- "The Guardian"

Schrauwen is one of the most provocative creators in the world of comics today, so it's not surprising that he would produce such a multidimensional work.-- "NPR Books"

Schrauwen returns with another heady and inventive collection tales... This sophisticated, inventive story cycle never fails to entertain, and strikes plenty of cerebral sparks.-- "Publishers Weekly"

Schrauwen tackles the basic building blocks of comics, science fiction, and our cultural sexual norms for insightfully entertaining results.-- "PopMatters"

This collection of six short stories is sharp, witty, beautifully drawn and a searing satire on the modern condition.-- "Elephant"

Conceptually challenging, Parallel Lives vigorously explores the potential of the medium through immaculate line work, a safari of colour and a pleasing mastery of form.-- "Gosh Comics"