Gloriana
Hardcover, 96 pages, Drawn and Quarterly, List Price: $19.95 | purchase
Book Summary
Gloriana combines the mundane interactions of everyday life with existential dissections of what it is that holds life together.
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Huizenga's protagonist, a po-faced Everyman named Glenn Ganges, returns in this expanded edition of previously published work. Gloriana includes four short stories in which Huizenga pushes the comics medium to dig beneath the surface of modern life and expose the rich and strange world that lurks below.
In "The Sunset," Glenn catches a retina-sizzling glimpse of the sun as it disappears over the horizon, an act that shatters the tidy narrative, and the implacable panel
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