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Soft City

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"GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY..." So dawns a new day in Soft City, where pill-stuffed citizens sit in traffic, march off to work at Soft Inc., zone out in front of the TV news, and shop, shop, shop. The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner - completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the US - is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and Brave New World, but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war. Every face looks like the next, and language itself has gone soft: "CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY WAY," blares the morning paper; "Heil Hilton!" barks an overlord on the news. Welcome to Soft City. Now don't be late for work.

Author Biography:

Pushwagner (Terje Brofos) was born in Oslo, Norway in 1940 to an engineer father and a biochemist mother. After a bus accident at age four left him with a coma and bedridden, his father taught him how to draw. In 1968, he began collaborating with his fellow Norwegian, the author Axel Jensen, on a series of graphic novels and illustrations. In 1969 he began work on his own comics masterpiece, Soft City, the pages of which were left in a suitcase and lost in 1972. In Oslo in 2002, the pages were rediscovered, twenty-five years after they went missing. Soft City was included in the 2008 Berlin Biennial and Pushwagner won the rights back to Soft City in Norwegian court in 2009. In 2012, there was a show of Pushwagner's work at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.
Release date NZ
October 4th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Edition
Main
Pages
160
Dimensions
248x346x23
ISBN-13
9781681370460
Product ID
24563462

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