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04154aam a2200397 i 4500 001 30CCE570F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230517010023 008 220326t20222022waua e 6 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2022934070 020 $a 168396649X 020 $a 9781683966494 035 $a (OCoLC)1305915552 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d CLE $d YDX $d CDX $d PAU $d OCL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN6727.W684 $b F73 2022 082 04 $a 741.5/973 $2 23/eng/20230117 100 1 $a Woodruff, Thomas, $d 1957- $e illustrator. $e illustrator. 245 10 $a Francis Rothbart! : $b the tale of a fastidious feral / $c drawn and composed by Mr. Thomas Woodruff. 264 1 $a Seattle, Washington : $b Fantagraphics Books Inc., $c [2022] 300 $a 292 pages : $b chiefly color illustrations ; $c 37 cm 520 $a "Francis Rothbart! follows a feral child who is raised by magpies and other creatures and is repeatedly struck by lightning. Because of the phenomena, the child develops eccentric talents, which he then abuses, leading to his ultimate destruction by the same natural world that once nurtured him. Written mostly in rhymed verse, Francis's picaresque saga unfolds in an allegorical environment, much like the topographical constructions behind renaissance religious paintings. Referencing both the Venetian landscapes of Bellini, Pierro di Cosimo and Carpaccio, mixed with the unlikely animated backdrops of Jay Ward and Chuck Jones, Woodruff's images recall the fictive gardens of a paradise lost that lingers somewhere deep in all our souls, moist and dark like the caves of the pious saints. Combining both paintings and drawings, each scene is a visual and verbal feast that transports us to a place in which trees anthropomorphize into figures bending from the weight of stalactite crowns, an iris becomes the gown for an oneiric sprite, and the sky rains down tears, as if mimicking the melancholy of a weeping willow. In a muted palette, Woodruff's carbon and white charcoal pencil drawings bring us ever closer to this mythical ecology. The artist lovingly focuses on every detail: ethereal, fragile blossoms, petals, roots, and leaves; impressively observed wildlife creatures; and each curve of the hand lettered text is rendered by the delicate hand of an illustrative obsessionist with a penchant for the poignant. Woodruff's images are multi-sourced amalgamations that echo with familiarity, portraying a world that is not only our own but also exists in the place of our half-remembered dreams."-- $c Publisher's webpage. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g pt. Five $t Vale. $g pt. TWO $t THE SONG -- $g pt. Two $t The Hummingbird Chorus -- $g pt. Three $t An Orchestral Interlude -- $g pt. Four $t The Magpie Pas De Deux -- $g pt. Five $t The Fauna Feeding March -- $g pt. THREE $t SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD -- $g pt. Two $t Nightmares -- $g Divertissement A $t Legends of the Mysterious Rocks -- $g pt. Three $t The Awakening -- $g pt. FOUR $t THE APPEARANCES -- $g pt. Two $t The Get-ups -- $t Fashion Plate One -- $t Fashion Plate Two -- $g Divertissement B $t In the Kingdom of Shadows -- $t Fashion Plate Three -- $g pt. FIVE $t SHOWTIME! -- $g Divertissement C $t Festa Di Primavera -- $g Divertissement D $t Lullaby in G -- $g pt. SIX $t TELEPATHIC CHOREOGRAPHY -- $g pt. Two $t An Intermezzo for a Frankensteinish Brow -- $g pt. SEVEN $t HOT MESS MELODIES -- $g pt. Two $t Totem Pole Tableau -- $g pt. Three $t Sortie! -- $g pt. Four $t Coda. -- $g pt. Five $t Vale. 650 0 $a Feral children $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 0 $a American literature $v Comic books, strips, etc. 650 7 $a Imaginary places. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967571 650 7 $a Boys. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837358 655 7 $a Stories in rhyme. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921738 655 7 $a Fantasy comics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921655 655 7 $a Comics (Graphic works) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921613 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726630 655 7 $a Fantasy comics. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Stories in rhyme. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Graphic novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=30CCE570F47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search