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Street View
Nominee:
2015 Eisner Awards, Best Publication Design
A brilliant homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, this unique accordion book, which opens in two directions, provides a series of 20 tableaux of a street scene as it evolves across a single day and night. Providing a multitude of ongoing stories that develop across both sides of the book, readers witness the lives of single people, couples, and families as well as stories of love, separation, and possibly even murder.
2015 Eisner Awards, Best Publication Design
A brilliant homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, this unique accordion book, which opens in two directions, provides a series of 20 tableaux of a street scene as it evolves across a single day and night. Providing a multitude of ongoing stories that develop across both sides of the book, readers witness the lives of single people, couples, and families as well as stories of love, separation, and possibly even murder.
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
54 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2014
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April 23, 2016
This comic book presents a play with only one set, what seems to be the facade of a building in Paris. It is divided in nights and days and we get to follow the ordinary lives of the characters. The reader can also play "spot what's changed" between two images. An unusual way of telling a story or rather, many intricate stories.
December 18, 2024
Totally spineless- the 1st and 4th plate touch nowhere!
This reads like a regular book, but with both open pages as a single panel, then does the same once flipped over from left->right again. It's not just two long tableaus like the Nobrow "Leoporello" I just read.
Jacques Tati's "Monsieur Hulot" and Alfred Hitchcock himself are featured in the action of the street block within every scene but the latter's movies are featured on ponytail dude's television during the mornings while you can guess at Hulot's during the evenings.
The painting is superb and must have taken a shocking amount of effort -after he had to spend the intellectual planning to engineer a story within it all- which inspired me to follow each character through separately after reading it as a whole!
This reads like a regular book, but with both open pages as a single panel, then does the same once flipped over from left->right again. It's not just two long tableaus like the Nobrow "Leoporello" I just read.
Jacques Tati's "Monsieur Hulot" and Alfred Hitchcock himself are featured in the action of the street block within every scene but the latter's movies are featured on ponytail dude's television during the mornings while you can guess at Hulot's during the evenings.
The painting is superb and must have taken a shocking amount of effort -after he had to spend the intellectual planning to engineer a story within it all- which inspired me to follow each character through separately after reading it as a whole!
July 10, 2017
It's always great to see someone do something innovative with a book.
March 26, 2026
I stumbled across this book in a thrift store and it is easily one of my favorite things ever. Just pure childhood delight opening it. (well as much as you can have with all the sex and murder going on lol)
Opening it one direction gives the same 'set', the outside of a building in France, 10 different times with different things going on each time.
Opening it the other way gives the same 'set' but at night where far more adult things are happening.
It was a fun game finding each character and following along to see what they were up to morning and night.
Absolutely in love with the whole idea and the art style. My introduction to this artist I will be on the hunt for other work by him.
Opening it one direction gives the same 'set', the outside of a building in France, 10 different times with different things going on each time.
Opening it the other way gives the same 'set' but at night where far more adult things are happening.
It was a fun game finding each character and following along to see what they were up to morning and night.
Absolutely in love with the whole idea and the art style. My introduction to this artist I will be on the hunt for other work by him.
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