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Fishtown, by Kevin Colden

Fishtown, by Kevin Colden

Based on the true story about teenagers who murdered a friend in working-class Philadelphia in 2003. A remarkable debut – tautly written, drawn with technical excellence and depth, and showing a deep grasp of illustrating character through small strokes of language and art. It achieves something truly unusual in comics: being truly disturbing.

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Book: 79/52

52/52: An ongoing project to read one book a week and document those books with reviews of 52 words each.
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Posted Friday, December 26th, 2008 at 2:45 am and in 52 Books/52 Weeks. You can follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed.



One Response to “Fishtown, by Kevin Colden”

  1. Fishtown. « The Hieroglyphic Streets says:
    August 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    [...] the murder. John Ostapkovich (KYW 1060) says it’s not for the squeamish. Sam Costello says it’s truly disturbing, unusually so in comics. Marc Sobel says it’s a quick, discomfiting read and depressing as [...]

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