Synopsis
by Walt Holcombe
Blessed with a lovely bouncy, rubbery SpongeBob SquarePants-y style, cartoonist and animator Walt Holcombe tells wildly imaginative stories of love gained and (often) lost. Things Just Get Away From You collects all of Holcombe's late-1990s comics work, with a bonus new story, "Hails at Sea," thrown in for good measure. It leads off with "King of Persia," a 1001 Nights/Yiddish vaudeville-inspired graphic novella in which king Faisal Al-Ghazali must win the affection of the woman he loves by traveling to an enchanted land in search of a giant emerald, while accompanied by his faithful companion, the talking camel, Jamila.
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Review
"Walt Holcombe seems woefully underrated to me. Especially because he's such a rare combination: a sensitive mind, a wide-ranging imagination, and a virtuoso of pure cartooning. What is wrong with a world where everyone doesn't know this man's name?!!" -- Seth
"Walt Holcombe is a true original; his jazzy drawings and mellifluous prose (to say nothing of his partiality for pathetic nebbishes, marine adventure, and "the exotic") concoct a personal, perfectly-timed viand redolent of 1920s humorists, Cliff Sterrett, and, more than anything, of Walt himself. I should also add that a big-hearted compassion backs his work like a stretched canvas behind paint." -- Chris Ware
About the Author
Walt Holcombe is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist who lives in Los Angeles, CA and works in the animation industry; he has worked on Comedy Central's "Kid Notorious" and Cartoon Network's "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi".
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st. (USA) Stated 1st printing. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "To C----/ Thanks for reading me! /Don't hate me! /Your pal, Walt Holcombe" then self-portrait cartoon of holcombe suronded by flies, no other markings, tiny bump to top corner of front cover, touch of rubbing to cover corner tips, Very Good; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 209pp, B&W comics and graphic novvels with 8 full colour pages showing drwings, colour illustrated endpapers. This book collects all of Holcombe's late-1990s comics work, with a bonus new story, "Hails at Sea," The lead-off work is the acclaimed 'King of Persia', for which he received an Eisner Award in 1997. (2.6 JM LVR 201/4 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed By Author. Seller Inventory # 07144