Blue

Blue is the debut graphic novel of Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. It's a fascinating blend of autobiography and fiction with a sci-fi twist: in a seaside Australian town struggling with alien tentacle-creature immigration, a trio of aimless teenagers skip school to go surfing, chase rumors of a dead body, and avoid dealing with their own fears. -- 96-page Hardcover graphic novel with 2-color interiors, 9.4" x 6.6" (landscape format)

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Here's what Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi, has to say about Blue: "This book rekindles my earliest enthusiasm for the comics medium. Pat Grant is the Australian Mark Twain, trading Huck's raft for a waxed-up surfboard and an inked-up sable brush. Vast themes of racism and immigration unravel in sprawling murals and a single day in the life of some reckless teens in this sea-polished, perfect nugget of a book."

"Pat Grant is serious about comics." -- Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics

"Blue is everything a good comic can be." -- Shaun Tan, author of The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia

"An affecting coming-of-age graphic memoir." -- Paul Gravett, author of Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life

"Complex and beautiful... an uncommonly sophisticated look at prejudice and localism." -- Andy Khouri, ComicsAlliance

IN PRINT! (PUBLISHED MARCH 2012)