Neil Young's Greendale - Hardcover

Dysart, Josh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401226981 ISBN 13: 9781401226985

Publisher: Vertigo, 2010

Synopsis

Written by JOSHUA DYSART Art and cover by CLIFF CHIANG Legendary singer-songwriter, musician and activist Neil Young brings one of his most personal albums, GREENDALE, to comics. Overseeing the work of acclaimed writer Joshua Dysart (UNKNOWN SOLDIER) and fan-favorite artist Cliff Chiang (HUMAN TARGET), they compose a graphic novel that explores a whole new dimension to the album that Rolling Stone voted as one of the best of its year. In the Fall of 2003, as the nation gallops into war, a politically active teenage girl named Sun lives, loves and dreams in a small California town named Greendale. Sun s always been different. There s been talk that the women in her family have all had a preternatural communion with nature. And when a Stranger comes to town a character whose presence causes Greendale to, well, go to hell she ll find herself on a journey both mystical and mythical. To face the Stranger, she ll unearth the secrets of her family in a political coming-of-age story infused with its own special magic. Advance-solicited On sale June 9 160 pg, FC, $19.99 US MATURE READERS

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Review

"Chiang's subdued, surreal art delivers an arresting visual dimension to the rock legend's spiral narrative that's as whimsical as it is fearsome."--WIRED/Underwire

""Greendale" the graphic novel is completely satisfying as its own, singular animal. . . . I enjoyed "Greendale" immensely, just as scenes from the Gulf reminded me how prescient it is."--Scripps Howard News Service

"An engrossing story of how every generation rediscovers its own coming-of-age journey, adapted from the rock opera album by Neil Young. . . . Dysart's writing ably builds the mystery of the story toward Sun's climactic discoveries about herself and her family that lead to life-changing decisions. Chiang's art excels at mixing the magical elements of the story with its foundation in reality and recent world events." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Joshua Dysart co-created and wrote the cult hit comic book series Violent Messiahs in 1997. Since then he has done work for virtually every major comic book publisher, including DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, IDW and Penny Farthing Press. He wrote the comic book adaptation of the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for Art Asylum, authored the one-shot Van Helsing: Beneath the Rue Morgue (an original story featuring the character from the Universal film) and penned Skull & Bones: A Monster House Story, which was tied into the Sony animated children's film. He has written a two volume 270 page graphic novel for Avril Lavigne entitled Make 5 Wishes published by Del Rey Manga/Random House which has been printed in over seven languages as well as digitally distributed throughout Asia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vertigo
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1401226981
• ISBN 13: 9781401226985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Chiang Cliff