{"product_id":"9781770462052","title":"Stroppy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStroppy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Marc Bell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first full-length graphic novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eShrimpy and Paul\u003c\/i\u003e: Who will win the All-Star Schnauzer Band song contest? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEnter the strange and wordplay-loving world of the cartoonist and fine artist Marc Bell (\u003ci\u003eShrimpy and Paul, Hot Potatoe\u003c\/i\u003e), where the All-Star Schnauzer Band runs things and tiny beings hold signs saying \"It's under control.\"\u003cbr\u003e     Our hapless hero, Stroppy, is minding his business, working a menial job in one of Monsieur Moustache's factories, when a muscular fellah named Sean blocks up the assembly line. Sean's there to promote an All-Star Schnauzer Band–organized songwriting contest, which he does enthusiastically and at the expense of Stroppy's livelihood, home, and face. Hoping for a cash prize, Stroppy submits a work by his friend Clancy the Poet. Mishaps and hilarity ensue, and Stroppy is forced to go deep into the heart of Schnauzer territory to rescue his poet friend.\u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003eStroppy\u003c\/i\u003e is Bell's triumphant return to comics; it's also his first full-length graphic novella, one that thrums with jokes, hashtags, and made-up song lyrics. Densely detailed not-so-secret underground societies, little robots, and heavyweight humdingers leap off the page in full color. With \u003ci\u003eStroppy\u003c\/i\u003e, Bell continues to explode the divide between fine art, doodling, and comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Bell] charges full speed ahead toward a strange land of hallucinations and absurdity. [Readers] will howl at his relentlessly ingenious words and images.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There's a fuzzy line between comics and fine art, and Marc Bell is determined to doodle all around it . . . [with] his absurdist tableaux.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781770462052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40596427374798,"sku":"9781770462052","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_d19884f7-051d-447c-bde5-9f9ec2ffb92a.jpg?v=1637857933","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781770462052","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}