***FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in progress: part one of
the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved author
of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories.
Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the
time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the
first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of
human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special
snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of
life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than
the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single
museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most
convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both
life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From
childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the
entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who
matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional
regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks
the love of only one other person on planet Earth.
