Sunday - Softcover

Olivier Schrauwen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683969677 ISBN 13: 9781683969679

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2024

Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed graphic novelist Olivier Schrauwen returns with a masterfully funny and profound day in the life narrative.

Best Graphic Novels of 2024, Washington Post

Best Graphic Novels of 2024, The Guardian

Best Books of 2024, The New Yorker

Sunday follows, over the course of one day, the stream of consciousness of a fictionalized version of the author’s cousin, Thibault. On the day of his girlfriend’s return from an extended trip, Thibault wakes up, does nothing, gets James Brown stuck in his head, drinks and smokes, grows paranoid about his relationship, struggles to compose text messages, and watches The Da Vinci Code, all the while avoiding anyone and everyone, descending deeper into his own thoughts and fears. Meanwhile, a former crush and another cousin of Thibault’s plan a surprise birthday for him, sending the external and internal on a collision course.

Schrauwen’s brilliant comic timing and formal mastery transcends the quotidian nature of the plot. Through use of color, flashback and the dissonance between text and image, the ways in which Schrauwen layers a depiction of human consciousness as lines on paper are infused heavily with slapstick and white-knuckle tension and make for an exhilarating read and breathtaking use of the comics medium.

About this title

About the Author

Olivier Schrauwen was born in Belgium in 1977 and studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, and comics at ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels. He currently lives in Berlin. He is the author of the books The Man Who Grew His Beard (2011), Arsene Schrauwen (2014), Parallel Lives (2018), and Sunday (2024).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1683969677
• ISBN 13: 9781683969679
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 474