false <![CDATA[Baloney]]> 6087483 1 <DIV><B>A TALE IN THREE SYMPHONICACTS <P></P></B>Following <I>White Rapids</I>—named Best Comic of 2007 by <I>The Onion</I>—Pascal Blanchet brings us <I>Baloney</I>. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town. <P></P>Curvy, retro lines and atmospheric, full-page panels evoke plaintive melodies, staccato passages, and soaring solos. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and ’40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia’s great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red-and-black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read <I>Baloney </I>as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich: a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant rates charged by utilities.</DIV> 6264377 20 1 2009 Baloney total:10|5:3|4:3|3:3|2:1| 10 38 21 7 4 1 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 16:57:24 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 21:32:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 9 false false Sat Mar 07 08:49:25 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 08:51:56 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 18:15:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 18:22:36 -0700 2009 White Rapids. Baloney's a more whimsical and tragic story, which helps to crank up the drama in Blanchet's style.]]> 4 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 09:27:46 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 09:29:22 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 20:53:41 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 07:55:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 28 06:42:54 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 06:43:06 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 12 06:17:34 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:34:33 -0700 2009
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