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Roadstrips

A Graphic Journey Across America Edited by Pete Friedrich

7-1/2 x 10 in; 128 pp ; full-color illustrations throughout
Paperback
Published in September, 2005
ISBN 081184742X
ISBN13 9780811847421

$22.95  

Roadstrips -- The explosion of comic books and graphic novels into the mainstream has demonstrated their universal storytelling power. Roadstrips is a unique comics anthology that takes a fresh look at our definitions of America in an era of upheaval and widespread soul-searching. Like a new On the Road for the 21st century, Roadstrips explores our national psyche through the work of 22 top cartoonists—among them Peter Kuper, Gilbert Hernandez, Jessica Abel, Pete Bagge, Richard Sala, Brian Biggs, and Lloyd Dangle. Exploring identity on both a micro and a macro level, they illustrate today's post-modern patchwork with bilious narratives, thoughtful tales, and hilarious memoirs. Taken together, their powerful and thoughtful stories create a composite national portrait like few others.

Pete Friedrich is a former comics artist and publisher, and the principal of Charette, a global identity firm. He lives in New York.