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Barcode30053003779280
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoG RESC
Title Rescue party : a graphic anthology of COVID lockdown / edited by Gabe Fowler ; foreword by Hillary Chute.
CollectionGraphic Novels
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
 Paris-Bourbon30053003779280G RESC7/31/2024 Available

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Title Statement Rescue party : a graphic anthology of COVID lockdown / edited by Gabe Fowler ; foreword by Hillary Chute.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Pantheon Books, [2024]
Physical Description xvii, 172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Content Type still image sti rdacontent
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Series Statement Pantheon graphic library
Summary, Etc. "Over a hundred page-long comics from around the world, documenting humanity's retreat into COVID-19 lockdown and imagining our eventual, boisterous reemergence, from the founder of the Brooklyn Comic Arts festival and owner of beloved indie comic shop Desert Island. On April 1, 2020, the Instagram account of Desert Island, Brooklyn's celebrated alternative comics shop, put out a call. By then, the shop had shuttered indefinitely, and the world's major cities had locked down as the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold: "We all need something positive to think about, and a lot of us have time on our hands," the post read. "Who wants to make something?" Hundreds of short comics from over fifty countries poured into Desert Island's inbox. Some came from notable cartoonists. Most, astonishingly, came from amateur artists just looking for an outlet to create in the midst of tragedy--for a chance to join the rescue party that leads us out of isolation. Collected here are one hundred fifty notable entries from the Rescue Party project, capturing the loneliness and the surprising comforts of early lockdown; the mania of its middle days as the mind begins to fray; and the branching paths of humanity's future, as we re-enter a world wracked with injustice. Bracing, beautiful, and conspicuously optimistic, Rescue Party is part graphic diary, part time capsule, and part field guide: a grassroots project that tells the collective story of lockdown from a chorus of global voices, and charts a course to a more just future."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Epidemics Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term COVID-19 (Disease) Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Quarantine Comic books, strips, etc. Social aspects
Index Term-Genre/Form Comics (Graphic works) lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Nonfiction comics. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographical comics. lcgft
Added Entry, Personal Name Fowler, Gabe, editor.
Added Entry, Personal Name Chute, Hillary L., writer of foreword.

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