Wally Gropius HC Fantagraphics Books – Good
GOOD –Book is in Good condition with moderate shelf wear. This book may have defects such as small corner ding(s), short cover crease(s), moderate loss of cover gloss or other issues but still a good copy. NO major issues like missing pages/cover, liquid damage, ripped/cut covers, etc. Book likely has a remainder mark.
Creators: Tim Hensley (Author, Artist)
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781606993552
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64 pages
On Sale Date: 6/8/2010
Dimensions: 10 x 0.5 x 12.4 in, 1.75 lb
Rating: 16 years and up
Superficially resembling 1960s teenage humor comics, Tim Hensley’s graphic novel Wally Gropius is actually an acute satire of power, celebrityhood, and modern culture, and tells the story of the titular character, who bears a closer resemblance to a teenaged Richie Rich or a classmate of Archie Andrews at Riverdale High than he does to the famous Bauhaus architect whose name he shares. Wally Gropius is the human Dow Jones, the teen who put the dough in bread, the heir to a vast petrochemical conglomerate. When the elder Thaddeus Gropius confronts Wally with the boilerplate plot ultimatum that he must marry the saddest girl in the world or be disinherited, a yarn unravels that is part screwball comedy, part homage to the teen and personality comics of the 1960s, and part unhinged parable on the lucrativeness of changing your identity. Hensley’s dialogue is witty, lyrical, sampled, dada, and elliptical, and all in the service of a very bizarre mystery. There’s sex, violence, rock and roll, intrigue, betrayal -all brought home in Hensley’s truly inimitable style. Created during an era when another well-off W was stuffing the coffers of the morbidly solvent,
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