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Inspired by Herman Melville’s novella, this graphic novel from the creators of The Magician’s Wife
recounts a gifted and innocent young man’s recruitment by the Soviet
secret service and his adventures in New York City as a spy. This
edition boasts a new English translation by author Jerome Charyn and an
Introduction by Paul Pope.



Dover Publications, paperback, 128 pages, published September 2016

 

Beyond rave review of Jerome Charyn and Francois Boucq’s first graphic novel together, now re-published in America by Dover Press.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-07/books/bk-41359_1_comic-book

“King Kong was about beauty and the beast, but the beast wasn’t Kong, who’d never have harmed Fay. It was New York City, monster town that could eat up love-sick gorillas. Kong was the big hairy child who couldn’t make it in Manhattan. One more hick.”

- Jerome Charyn, Movieland: Hollywood and the great American dream culture (NYU Press, 1996)

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Author Jerome Charyn at Housing Works bookstore in NYC

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La mujer del mago de Jerome Charyn y François Boucq. Tenéis una reseña de esta obra aquí mismo

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Hard Apple by Asaf Hanuka with colors by Tomer Hanuka [ Jerome Charyn’s Hard Apple ]

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Graphic Novel version of “Marilyn the Wild” by Jerome Charyn - #2 in the Isaac Sidel cult crime series

isaacsidel:

A lot of animation fans know Sam Riegel from Naruto or from the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, but none of us knew Sam as Spider-man before. How did he get to play the coolest super hero of all time, in the upcoming video game?

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ODILE LEONHARDY, 19, a high-class escort with grandiose ambitions. She is a siren that few can resist, male or female. Sincerity is a luxury that she can rarely afford. A product of Manhattan’s most elite all-girl school, she is politely charitable to her erstwhile pimp, Chino, but only when he is reduced to a weeping mess in her arms. She tries steers clear of Coen when she realizes she can’t master him but eventually succumbs to his charms. Craving celebrity, she will risk her life in the ring against Bimba, the undefeated star of Cesar’s underground fight-club.

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Isaac might come through the window; he had a passion for fire escapes, and he hated climbing stairs. 

-from Marilyn the Wild , by Jerome Charyn