From Lone Mountain : King-Cat comics and stories 2003-2007 / by John Porcellino.
John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintessential American endeavour-the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain, John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and overwhelming hustle of major cities. From Lone Mountain collects stories from Porcellino's influential zine King-Cat-John enters a new phase of his life, as he remarries and decides to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday. Over the past three decades, Porcellino's beloved King-Cat thas offered solace to his readers: his gentle observational stories take the pulse of everyday life and reveal beauty in the struggle to keep going.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781770462953
- ISBN: 1770462953
- Physical Description: 303 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: Montréal : Drawn and Quarterly, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
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Subject: | Porcellino, John > Comic books, strips, etc. Loss (Psychology) > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Comics (Graphic works) Graphic novels. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Scenic Regional.
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From Lone Mountain
A view of America--as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places John Porcellino makes his love of home and of nature the anchors in an increasingly turbulent world. He slows down and visits the forests, fields, streams, and overgrown abandoned lots that surround every city. He studies the flora and fauna around us. He looks at the overlooked. Porcellino also digs deep into a quintessential American endeavour--the road trip. Uprooting his comfortable life several times in From Lone Mountain , John drives through the country weaving from small town to small town, experiencing America in slow motion, avoiding the sameness of airports and overwhelming hustle of major cities. From Lone Mountain collects stories from Porcellino's influential zine King-Cat --John enters a new phase of his life, as he remarries and decides to leave his beloved second home Colorado for San Francisco. Grand themes of King-Cat are visited and stated more eloquently than ever before: serendipity, memory, and the quest for meaning in the everyday. Over the past three decades, Porcellino's beloved King-Cat has offered solace to his readers: his gentle observational stories take the pulse of everyday life and reveal beauty in the struggle to keep going.