The Golem's Mighty Swing

Sturm, James

ISBN 10: 1896597718 ISBN 13: 9781896597713

Published by Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, 2003

Language: English

Condition: Used Soft cover

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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