The Golem's Mighty Swing

Sturm, James

ISBN 10: 1896597718 / ISBN 13: 9781896597713

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, 2003

About this Item

8vo. 100pp. Signed by the author, with a little sketch of a ballplayer, front free. end paper.

Seller Inventory # MAIN026782I

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Golem's Mighty Swing
• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896597718
• ISBN 13: 9781896597713
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd ptg.
• Condition: Near Fine wraps
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

James Sturm pens this richly evocative graphic novel set in the 1920s. The Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. They all sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons but when financial difficulties threaten to end their season they cast their lot with a Chicago promoter who has just seen the hugely successful German silent film Der Golem...With the golem, a baseball game is transformed into a mythical pageant. Fear and curiosity fills the stadium, but it also stokes the flames of anti-Semitism. Winning the game for the Stars of David becomes less important then surviving it. With a sepia-tinted cinematic style, this compelling book reminds us that making it home is at the heart of baseball.

About the Author

James Sturm co-founded the Seattle alternative weekly, The Stranger, lectured on art at the only college where you can take a degree in comics, is active in the National Alliance of Comics Art Educators and recently published a defense of teaching comics in the Chronicle of Higher Education. And he just had a baby.