Daybreak - Hardcover

Ralph, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770463836 ISBN 13: 9781770463837

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2019

Synopsis

You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep, and then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your new-found protector and is scratching at the door. What transpires is a moment-to-moment struggle for survival-The Road meets Dawn of the Dead. Daybreak is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. Brian Ralph slowly builds the tension of the zombies on the periphery, letting the threat-rather than the actual carnage-be the driving force. The post-apocalyptic backdrop features tangles of rocks, lumber, I beams, and overturned cars that are characters in and of themselves. Drawing inspiration from horror movies, television, and first-person shooter video games, Daybreak departs from zombie genre in both content and format, achieving a living-dead masterwork of literary proportions. When released in 2011, Daybreak was a critical success, a YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens, and a TLA Maverick Graphic Novel. Read the book before the Netflix Original series starring Matthew Broderick hits the small screen.

About this title

About the Author

Brian Ralph graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 with a BFA in Illustration. His illustrations have appeared in a number of publications, including Wired, the New York Times, and the New York Daily News. Ralph s comics have appeared in the Museum of Modern Art newsletter, Nickelodeon Magazine, the Drama Magazine, Pulse Magazine, the Ganzfeld, DC Comics Bizarro, and in McGraw Hill textbooks. He has published three books with Drawn and Quarterly: Cave In, Reggie-12, and Daybreak, which is being adapted into a Netflix Original Series. Ralph is a professor of sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770463836
• ISBN 13: 9781770463837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160