A Book To Make Friends With cover image
The cover to A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete. The cover features the title and author's name in charcoal gray and a variety of fonts against a colorful background of what appears to be smoke clouds and bouncing balls exploding from the center.
The briefcase slipcover for A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete. The briefcase slipcover is brown with black handles and features the title on an orange tag drawn onto the cover. The slipcase also features various sticker-like drawings of faces and strange creatures.
A Book To Make Friends With
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, A Book To Make Friends With cover image
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The cover to A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete. The cover features the title and author's name in charcoal gray and a variety of fonts against a colorful background of what appears to be smoke clouds and bouncing balls exploding from the center.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The briefcase slipcover for A Book to Make Friends With by Lukas Verstraete. The briefcase slipcover is brown with black handles and features the title on an orange tag drawn onto the cover. The slipcase also features various sticker-like drawings of faces and strange creatures.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, A Book To Make Friends With
$75.00
$75.00
Out of stock
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Lukas Verstraete, Translator: Laura Watkinson

A Book To Make Friends With

On sale date: August 29, 2023

A dizzying, psychedelic and psychological journey of a man in search of himself, rendered in hyper-energetic, eye-popping colored pencils.

Tick, tick, boom. Open the cover of this graphic novel to unleash a bombastic bomb blast of frenetic line work, a cacophony of vibrant color, and an action-packed narrative that whirls and swirls in all directions like the furious, roaring winds of a mushroom cloud. Enter the blast radius of this conflagration of imagination and experience how brilliantly its creative fires burn.

A Book to Make Friends With marks the explosive English language debut of Flemish cartoonist Lukas Verstraete. What begins as a Pulp Fiction-inspired heist, in which two masked gangsters rob a passerby of his mysterious briefcase, soon snowballs into a psychedelic journey full of chase scenes, shapeshifting, soul possession, spiritual hallucinations, and unrequited romance. It all culminates in an epic, breathtakingly rendered battle between good and evil. At turns playful, philosophical, and kinetically riotous, you’ve never seen a graphic novel quite like this. Printed as an oversized hardcover edition encased in a luxurious slipcase, this book is as much a gorgeous aesthetic object as an engrossing work of fiction.

Praise

"Verstraete leaves no stone unturned in his English-language debut, a violence-drenched, underground-comic-style flight into the unknown. It's an expertly rendered ... journey into a realm of magic, brutality, and entropy. Verstraete finds a cockeyed humor in this apocalyptic vision." — Publishers Weekly

"A crime 'caper' that evolves into a hallucinatory metaphysical journey and will knock your socks off with its lush, vibrant art, Flemish cartoonist Verstraete is a contemporary heir to the best of the RAW artists in both spirit and style, and his work absolutely earns the deluxe, no-holds-barred presentation Fanta gives it here." — Four Color Apocalypse

"Imagination is hardly in short supply as Verstraete drags readers on a long shaggy dog story that's really a vehicle for his kinetic underground-style cartooning, leading the reader into ever stranger locations. Vividly bright pages, instant shifts of scenery and ever more remarkable events..." — Slings & Arrows

"An overwhelming debut and a mind-expanding book." — De Standaard

"A wonderful, oversized graphic novel full of wild pencil drawings." — Humo

Specs

Pages
208
Format
Hardback
Color
Full-color.
Dimensions
14.7" × 11.2"
ISBN-13
9781683965640
x