Book : Howl A Graphic Novel - Ginsberg, Allen

-Titulo Original : Howl A Graphic Novel

-Fabricante :

Harper Perennial

-Descripcion Original:

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsbergs Howl is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. ? Now a major motion picture, starring James Franco, Howl was directed by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, who hired Eric Drooker to animate the poem. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem--stanza by stanza--with full color animation art Drooker designed for the film. [Printed on recycled paper with Soy Ink, this luxury art book has french flaps and spot gloss on cover.] Review A swirling, ever-changing universe, expand an often painfully personal poem about (among other things) one mans unrequited love into a visual metaphor for the alienation of an entire generation. - Newsweek Drookers Howl illustrations tend to feature elongated figures and sweeping, richly colored landscapes--making up a fantastical world that reflects the text. - The Wall Street Journal The most creative part of the movie is Eric Drookers melodramatic drawings (fully animated)...lunging through the skyscrapers and alleys of modern experience. - David Denby, The New Yorker From the Author Introduction by Eric Drooker First time I hung with Allen Ginsberg, one long hot summer night in 1988, the streets were hopping mad. Riot cops on horseback were slowly moving in our direction, enforcing a midnight curfew, but the chanting crowd refused to leave Tompkins Square Park--a refuge for punks, homeless, squatters, artists and other riffraff whod been keeping real estate prices down on Manhattans Lower East Side. When the police charged, swinging clubs, we lost each other in the crowd. When I bumped into Allen a year later, and he realized that I was the artist whod created so many of the street posters in the neighborhood, he admitted that hed been peeling them off brick walls and lampposts, and collecting them at home. He suggested we do a poster together. Over time, we collaborated on numerous projects, bouncing his words off my pictures. Our book, Illuminated Poems, became an underground classic, and ultimately caught the attention of filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. They were just starting to direct a feature film about Allens early poem Howl and its historical significance--with Hollywood actors playing Ginsberg and his friends, Jack Kerouac and Neil Cassady. When they approached me with the ingenious idea of animating Howl, I thought they were nuts and said sure, lets animate Dantes Inferno while were at it! Then they told me Id work with a team of studio animators who would bring my pictures to life . . . how could I say no? Last time I hung with Allen Ginsberg was on a cold winter night three months before he died. Over the phone hed invited me to join him for dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant. As usual, we discussed current events, politics, and eventually got onto the subject of art. Allen brought up the painting The Triumph of Death by the 16th century master, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Have you ever seen it . . . in real life? he asked. No . . . not yet. Where is it? I asked. Its in Spain, in the Prado Museum. Its enormous and fucking terrifying! After supper we went up to his apartment, where Allen was in the process of getting rid of things he no longer needed. Hey Eric, you want this jacket? It looks about your size. He handed me a crimson-red blazer jacket. I tried it on. . . . Good fit he said, now its yours. From the Inside Flap In publishing Howl, I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness, in case our military-industrial- nationalist complex solidified into a repressive police bureauc