Library Journal - Xpress Reviews - First Look at New Graphic Novels
Library Journal today has their Xpress Reviews - "First Look at New Books" -- including reviews of twenty-one graphic novels:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6401099.html#Graphic
Included is their review of Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka from Alternative Comics:
Keret, Etgar (text) & Asaf Hanuka (illus.). Pizzeria Kamikaze. Alternative Comics. 2006. 100p. ISBN 1-891867-90-3 [ISBN 978-1-891867-90-3]. pap. $14.95. F
Suicides all go to the same afterworld. There, Mordy finds himself working at Kamikaze, a next-life pizza joint in a city that reminds him of Tel Aviv. Soon, Mordy discovers that other, more familiar suicides ended up in the same space. When he learns that Desiree, his girlfriend, jumped from the roof of a hospital one month after he took his own life, he sets off to find her with his German roommate, Uzi, a do-nothing who has nothing better to do. His quest takes him along the back roads of this limbo, where miracles happen as long as they are meaningless. Popular writer and Tel Aviv native Keret creates a compelling journey in a world of the vacant eyed and the pleasure seeking. The well-translated tale is perfectly complemented by illustrator Hanuka's black-and-white noirish ink, and his use of silver to fill the shadows of the suicide world adds even more interest to this already sharp work. This graphic novel stays lighthearted without being funny and is morbid without employing despair-all for the better. Best suited for older teens and adults given the mature theme, some sexual innuendo, depiction of drug use, and minimal explicit language; recommended.-David Garza, AWBERC Lib., U.S. EPA, Cincinnati
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6401099.html#Graphic
Included is their review of Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka from Alternative Comics:
Keret, Etgar (text) & Asaf Hanuka (illus.). Pizzeria Kamikaze. Alternative Comics. 2006. 100p. ISBN 1-891867-90-3 [ISBN 978-1-891867-90-3]. pap. $14.95. F
Suicides all go to the same afterworld. There, Mordy finds himself working at Kamikaze, a next-life pizza joint in a city that reminds him of Tel Aviv. Soon, Mordy discovers that other, more familiar suicides ended up in the same space. When he learns that Desiree, his girlfriend, jumped from the roof of a hospital one month after he took his own life, he sets off to find her with his German roommate, Uzi, a do-nothing who has nothing better to do. His quest takes him along the back roads of this limbo, where miracles happen as long as they are meaningless. Popular writer and Tel Aviv native Keret creates a compelling journey in a world of the vacant eyed and the pleasure seeking. The well-translated tale is perfectly complemented by illustrator Hanuka's black-and-white noirish ink, and his use of silver to fill the shadows of the suicide world adds even more interest to this already sharp work. This graphic novel stays lighthearted without being funny and is morbid without employing despair-all for the better. Best suited for older teens and adults given the mature theme, some sexual innuendo, depiction of drug use, and minimal explicit language; recommended.-David Garza, AWBERC Lib., U.S. EPA, Cincinnati