- Gebundene Ausgabe: 103 Seiten
- Verlag: Dark Horse Comics (25. März 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1595822585
- ISBN-13: 978-1595822581
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 14 - 17 Jahre
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 16 x 1,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 993.665 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Iconoclastic cartoonist Rick Geary chronicles the extraordinary adventures of an equally extraordinary woman of the early twentieth century in "The Adventures of Blanche!" Blanche begins her journey with a refined piano professor in New York, but soon finds herself entangled with a brazen portrait painter, subterranean societies, and shocking secrets behind the New York subway system. From there, she's off to Hollywood, where her stirring talents bring to light the labor movement's struggles with the motion-picture studios. Then, in Paris, after a pleasant ocean voyage, Blanche arrives to find a canceled concert tour, a murder, and mysterious old memories.
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Iconoclastic cartoonist Rick Geary chronicles the extraordinary adventures of an equally extraordinary woman of the early twentieth century in "The Adventures of Blanche!" Blanche begins her journey with a refined piano professor in New York, but soon finds herself entangled with a brazen portrait painter, subterranean societies, and shocking secrets behind the New York subway system. From there, she's off to Hollywood, where her stirring talents bring to light the labor movement's struggles with the motion-picture studios. Then, in Paris, after a pleasant ocean voyage, Blanche arrives to find a canceled concert tour, a murder, and mysterious old memories.
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The Hipster spies with his Mystic Eye, something that begins with--Odd & amusing little volume, not his usual.
17. April 2009
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Rick Geary is best known for his non-fiction graphic novels dealing with 19th Century crime. So I assumed this was the same.
I was wrong, but I'm still happy.
Geary's takes a stab at fiction in this volume, & wanders somewhat into the Addams/Gorey territory, with spies, monsters & sinister forces abounding. Even HP Lovecraft is given a nod.
Still, it IS entertaining, & his illustration is quite up to his usual good standards.
The Hipster gives it a Big Thumbs UP!
I was wrong, but I'm still happy.
Geary's takes a stab at fiction in this volume, & wanders somewhat into the Addams/Gorey territory, with spies, monsters & sinister forces abounding. Even HP Lovecraft is given a nod.
Still, it IS entertaining, & his illustration is quite up to his usual good standards.
The Hipster gives it a Big Thumbs UP!
Blanche noir
2. Januar 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Like George MacDonald Fraser and his Flashman series, Rick Geary pretends that he found a series of letters from his grandmother Blanche and that he is publishing them for the first time in book form. The letters are different from Geary's usual subject of murder, instead telling extraordinary stories through the eyes of an innocent.
Blanche goes to New York in 1907 to study piano. The house in which she lives with her fellow pupils and teacher is a new tenement with corridors underneath the house that lead to locked doors. Then she hears strange noises in the dark and begins to investigate...
8 years later Blanche is in Hollywood in 1915 and we see the attempts of the workers in the fledging film industry striking in order to unionise and the brutal efforts from studio heads to stop this from happening. A number of famous people from the time pop into the story as well.
6 years later now and it's 1921 when Blanche, a successful concert pianist, is booked for a European tour starting in Paris. However a sudden murder and a mysterious figure from her days in Hollywood leads Blanche onto a new adventure with government agents hot on her tail!
I think I liked the New York story best as it had a nice Lovecraftian bent to it and balanced the line between drama/horror/comedy well. The Hollywood years were told well too and you get an insight into these times, and the Paris story was good too with a sci-fi element added to the story.
Geary's drawings are their usual high quality, in particular the New York story where the page looks to be bulging with detail! If you're a fan of Geary's and are wondering if he can pull off original fiction with the flair in which he deals with crime non-fiction, wonder no more. "The Adventures of Blanche" is a great comic book from a great comic artist, and a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
Blanche goes to New York in 1907 to study piano. The house in which she lives with her fellow pupils and teacher is a new tenement with corridors underneath the house that lead to locked doors. Then she hears strange noises in the dark and begins to investigate...
8 years later Blanche is in Hollywood in 1915 and we see the attempts of the workers in the fledging film industry striking in order to unionise and the brutal efforts from studio heads to stop this from happening. A number of famous people from the time pop into the story as well.
6 years later now and it's 1921 when Blanche, a successful concert pianist, is booked for a European tour starting in Paris. However a sudden murder and a mysterious figure from her days in Hollywood leads Blanche onto a new adventure with government agents hot on her tail!
I think I liked the New York story best as it had a nice Lovecraftian bent to it and balanced the line between drama/horror/comedy well. The Hollywood years were told well too and you get an insight into these times, and the Paris story was good too with a sci-fi element added to the story.
Geary's drawings are their usual high quality, in particular the New York story where the page looks to be bulging with detail! If you're a fan of Geary's and are wondering if he can pull off original fiction with the flair in which he deals with crime non-fiction, wonder no more. "The Adventures of Blanche" is a great comic book from a great comic artist, and a wonderful read. Highly recommended.
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Once Again, Rick Geary Doesn't Disappoint
23. November 2009
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
In 1907, Blanche leaves her small town for New York City, where she'll be boarding and taking piano lessons from a renowned professor living in Manhattan. The letters she sends home to her parents downplay how easily Blanche blossoms in the city. A bright young woman, Blanche quickly becomes a favorite of a variety of personalities, including painters, musicians, and intellectuals. But it isn't until she is forced to explore the subterranean tunnels of the newly built subway--and meet the things living in those tunnels--that the story begins to get exciting.
In the second story, Blanche moves from New York to Hollywood, where she is hired to compose music for one of the new moving picture studios. In addition to learning about the movies, Blanche learns about the labor movement firsthand, as she works to expose the truth about a group of antilabor strikebreakers who turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot.
Rounding out the collection is the story of Blanche's arrival in Paris, where she is to perform a series of concerts, only to learn the concerts have been canceled and her promoter has disappeared. Mix in a murder, avant-garde artists, and a science experiment involving the Eiffel Tower, and Blanche is sent running for her life.
All three stories take place in a romantic time in history, when life and technology changed as quickly as they do today. Those changes happened on a much grander scale, and the excitement and buzz surrounding the building of the New York subway system was as momentous to them as nanocomputers are to us. Reading very much like a carefully written letter sent home to conservative, unworldly parents, the dry writing is perfectly juxtaposed with the vibrant, active pictures, and there is much more going on in the images than the words on the page alone convey. Some readers may interpret the slowness of the writing as being dull, but those who stick with it will be rewarded with stories as exciting as the woman the stories are about. Once again, Rick Geary doesn't disappoint.
-- Eva Volin
In the second story, Blanche moves from New York to Hollywood, where she is hired to compose music for one of the new moving picture studios. In addition to learning about the movies, Blanche learns about the labor movement firsthand, as she works to expose the truth about a group of antilabor strikebreakers who turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot.
Rounding out the collection is the story of Blanche's arrival in Paris, where she is to perform a series of concerts, only to learn the concerts have been canceled and her promoter has disappeared. Mix in a murder, avant-garde artists, and a science experiment involving the Eiffel Tower, and Blanche is sent running for her life.
All three stories take place in a romantic time in history, when life and technology changed as quickly as they do today. Those changes happened on a much grander scale, and the excitement and buzz surrounding the building of the New York subway system was as momentous to them as nanocomputers are to us. Reading very much like a carefully written letter sent home to conservative, unworldly parents, the dry writing is perfectly juxtaposed with the vibrant, active pictures, and there is much more going on in the images than the words on the page alone convey. Some readers may interpret the slowness of the writing as being dull, but those who stick with it will be rewarded with stories as exciting as the woman the stories are about. Once again, Rick Geary doesn't disappoint.
-- Eva Volin
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