Originally released in 2009, the work is being reissued by its publisher in a new printing that deserves to be discovered by those who missed it the first time.įirst book in the collection, “Tales from the Farm,” centers on a jug-eared farm boy named Lester who is living with his Uncle Ken Papineau after his mother’s death from cancer. Elegantly moody and distinctly honed in its characterization, the black-and-white GN examines three members of an isolated community at various stages in life with an empathy and clear-sightedness that’s rare enough in prose fiction, let alone graphic novels. A collection of three intertwining graphic novels set in a rural Canadian county, Jeff Lemire’s The Complete Essex County (Top Shelf) is a meaty 512-page slab of graphic novel lit that can stand along such models of written story prose as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio.
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