Amazing Rain

(Paperback)

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The first book by popular artist Sam Brown destined to rework the current conventions of the graphic novel. With the deceptively simple use of line of Matt Groening or James Thurber, the deft and elegant use of colour of Chris Ware or Herge, the cinematographic eye of Eric Drooker and the combined sense of dark humour and nostalgic sadness of Edward Gorey, Brown has created a sparse and engrossing novella that stands beautifully and beckoningly outside of any of the established forms or conventions of the comic book or the graphic novel to date. Like a medieval tapestry of Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts drawn by Keith Haring on a Wacom tablet, Sam Brown weaves a story within a story, a fable entwined in a narrative of urban disenchantment and pastoral escape.

Reviews

"Amazing Rain is an excellent display of Brown's unique imagination and his uncanny ability to marry text and art, a skill at the core of what "comics" and graphic fiction are all about" - PopMatters "The pictures feature simple colours and sticklike figures in a distinctive style that is widely recognised and admired by online regulars" - The New York Times "His spare style lends a slightly distended look to his stick-figure characters, but his cartoons are funnier than anything you'll find in the Sunday paper." - Wired Magazine "He eloquently combines his attractive visual style, sense of fun, and sometimes sick humor with raw emotion...Brown captures true postmodernist themes in a surprisingly effective and natural way." - MIT Tech"

Author Bio

Sam Brown's website, www.explodingdog.com, has attracted a cultishly devoted following and receives over half a million visitors a month. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, The Houston Chronicle, The Independent, The Sydney Morning Herald, Wired magazine, Ironminds magazine, as well as on CNN. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.