Abecederia

Abecederia

Blexbolex, 1966-

Graphic novel in the form of an alphabet book;A play on the Greek practice of Abecedarium inscriptions, the story is illustrated one letter a time, incorporating A-Z onto the page in ever more ingenious ways. For his comic, Blexbolex transports the municipal film-noir genre into the jungle clearings of Abecederia, where our protagonists, Leon and Bernard Blanchett, two French born gangsters hiding from an international warrant for arrest in central Africa, are fleeing the police after a far from perfect bank robbery. A work that confounds with its twists and turns just as much at it impresses with its imagination, Abecederia explores themes such torture, totalitarianism, alienation and dehumanisation in a brutal world where no one is safe. -- from NoBrow website; First published in German: Frankfurt/Main : B?chergilde Gutenberg, 2007. Also published in French.

2009

[London] : NoBrow

Artists' books

Alphabet books

English

[28] p. : col.ill. 21 cm

39362050068054

Art Limited Access Minis

N7433.4.B576 A2 2009