The Resource Soft City, Hariton Pushwagner ; introduction by Chris Ware ; afterword by Martin Herbert
Soft City, Hariton Pushwagner ; introduction by Chris Ware ; afterword by Martin Herbert
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- Summary
- ""GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. . ." So dawns a new day in Soft City, where pill-stuffed citizens sit in traffic, march off to work at Soft Inc., zone out in front of the TV news, and shop, shop, shop. The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner-- completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States--is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war. Every face looks like the next, and language itself has gone soft: "CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY WAY, " blares the morning paper; "Heil Hilton!" barks an overlord on the news. Welcome to Soft City. Now don't be late for work"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Soft City
- Title
- Soft City
- Statement of responsibility
- Hariton Pushwagner ; introduction by Chris Ware ; afterword by Martin Herbert
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. . ." So dawns a new day in Soft City, where pill-stuffed citizens sit in traffic, march off to work at Soft Inc., zone out in front of the TV news, and shop, shop, shop. The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner-- completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States--is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World but with an off-kilter beauty all its own. Pushwagner gives us an epic, exuberantly intricate vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and endless, distant war. Every face looks like the next, and language itself has gone soft: "CLEAN BOMB THE HAPPY WAY, " blares the morning paper; "Heil Hilton!" barks an overlord on the news. Welcome to Soft City. Now don't be late for work"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pushwagner
- Dewey number
- 741.5/9481
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN6790.N83
- LC item number
- P877 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- comics graphic novels
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1967-
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Ware, Chris
- Herbert, Martin
- Series statement
- New York Review comic
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dystopias
- Conformity
- Conformity
- Dystopias
- Label
- Soft City, Hariton Pushwagner ; introduction by Chris Ware ; afterword by Martin Herbert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn932385821
- Dimensions
- 35 cm.
- Extent
- 167 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681370460
- Lccn
- 2016017257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026553205
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations (some color)
- Label
- Soft City, Hariton Pushwagner ; introduction by Chris Ware ; afterword by Martin Herbert
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn932385821
- Dimensions
- 35 cm.
- Extent
- 167 pages
- Isbn
- 9781681370460
- Lccn
- 2016017257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026553205
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrations (some color)
Subject
- Conformity
- Conformity -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Dystopian comics
- Dystopian comics
- Dystopias
- Dystopias -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels
- Graphic novels -- Norway
- Graphic novels -- Norway
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic books
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Comics (Graphic works)
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