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Renée French: H Day Hardcover – November 30, 2010

by Renée French (Artist), Renee French (Artist)
4.9 out of 5 stars (11)
Renée French, an acclaimed graphic novelist and Inkpot Award winner at San Diego's Comic-Con International, has entranced legions of fans with her twisted, highly inventive pencil drawings, whose agile lines and delicate shading open up strange imaginary vistas. She's been called an inimitable and masterful stylist, a kind of Edward Gorey who draws out the whimsical side of body-horror, and indeed, the spirit of Gorey's grotesques breathes through French's creations. In H Day, her first graphic novel in four years, French explores, through metaphor and in pictures, her struggles with migraine headaches, marshaling troops of insects, beasts and humanoids to envision the processes that result in such hideous sensations. A sweeping, often tense narrative of invasion, repulsion and liberation, H Day can be read both as an oblique autobiography and as a suspenseful fantasy story. This volume makes clear the qualities that led Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season, to call Renée French "that rare gift among artists--one whose work finds its way into the most guarded corners of our psyches and allows us to revel in all that is awkward, embarrassing or sticky about being alive."
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  1. Print length
    216 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    PictureBox
  4. Publication date
    November 30, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0982094701
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0982094709
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"Renée French's graphic novels, including "The Ticking" and "The Soap Lady," tend to split the difference between adorable and horrifically gross. The wordless H DAY (PictureBox, $30), its cover informs us, addresses "her struggles with migraine headaches and Argentine ant infestation." The migraine part is fairly straightforward: the book's left-hand pages are a stripped-down, flipbook-style animation of a body with a ganglionic mass inside its head that crawls out, envelops the head and lashes it to a bed. The right-hand pages, though, are where French gets to show off her command of pillowy pencil textures and viscerally alarming imagery. The book's early sequences are built around lush drawings of blocky, right-angled urban megaliths and their interstices, populated by tiny dark forms (antlike people and dogs), and swirling gusts of black wind that become swarms and streams of dots. Then the plot gets more opaque: there are wrapped and mummified creatures, a hooded figure deploying a white bundle, wicker cages that turn in on themselves. You can skim through the whole thing in about four minutes or spend hours puzzling over how it all fits together. There's only one image on each page, surrounded by clean white space, but it often seems as if teensy crawling beasties are about to emerge and skitter across the whiteness, toward your tasty fingers." --Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review, October 31, 2010

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ PictureBox
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0982094701
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0982094709
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #4,141,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 out of 5 stars (11)

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    Renee French is the author/illustrator of The Ticking (Top Shelf Productions), H Day (Picturebox), Micrographica (Top Shelf Productions), Hagelbarger & That Nightmare Goat ( Yam Books), Barry's Best Buddy (Toon Books) and Baby Bjornstrand (Koyama Press). She lives and works in the US and Australia.

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  • W. Carman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Visual
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2010
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    After The Ticking I thought there could be no more perfect visual narrative in book form. I need to re-think the word perfect. h day reaches that same level of accomplishment and more. The mystery and personal touch reaches out and holds me, haunts me. I am one who still gets tremendous satisfaction from the tactility of books and this book feels good in my hands and smells good when opened. Book lovers will know. There are very few total book experiences anymore without paying a lot of money but occasionally a gem comes along as an affordable treasure. h day is such a gem.
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  • Michele Lea
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017
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    Love everything Renee does!
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  • Genny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love it.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015
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    I own everything this woman writes/illustrates. Love it.
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  • kun w.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2017
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    Such a nice book. really good quality and price.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars It wasn't what i was expecting but i loved it all the same
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2015
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    It wasn't what i was expecting but i loved it all the same, a very interesting insight into someone's mind
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