Bøger af Bill Griffith

Spud Tatum, a native of South Louisiana, was given a second chance! He was physically re-engineered and endowed with World Class Speed. With this talent he traveled to Savannah, Georgia and tried out as a "walk on" Defensive Back- (Strong Side Safety) with the "Savannah Colonels" at the insistence of Dan Wells, Head Scout for the Colonels. Dan was his girlfriend's Uncle, and a chance acquaintance. Blinding speed, perfect timing and opportunity turn Spud into an NFL Star with the "upstart" Savannah Colonels, a young Expansion Team that was not expected to go far in the league. Something intangible happens to the team, and they rally around Spud to play far beyond their means. Spud makes friends, helps others, and is consumed by a young lady, "Lessy", a teenager in a wheelchair. Savannah is a great city full of real characters and the story is a rolling account of how Spud keeps his head on his shoulders by fishing, hunting, and grounding himself with friends, and a "family" he constructs from scratch! Something he sorely lacked, and didn't know it.

Tapper Morre was a lucky, fairly happy person enjoying New Orleans in the late 60's. There was a lot going on, and he was having a pretty good time. However, the Vietnam War was escalating and the threat of being drafted was real. A lot of Tapper's friends had been given an all expense paid trip to Southeast Asia courtesy of the U.S. Army, Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps after they let their grades slip, or got put on suspension for one reason or another. Upon graduation from College, Tapper decided to go to Graduate School rather than be drafted. He just hadn't decided to declare war on Vietnam yet. Until they invaded South Louisiana he was going to be content to further his education. His College Advisor recommended Law School, and signed him up for the LSAT against his wishes. He had no interest in Law. It wasn't what he had planned for his future but, as luck would have it, he scored in the upper ten per cent, and along with his grades, which were pretty good, found himself in Law School at Tulane University- New Orleans, Louisiana. This was not the worse place to be at that time. There were plenty of pretty girls around, the Race Track was near to bet on horses, a card game was in the back room of a thousand bar rooms, and the food was good in and around New Orleans. This is the adventure of Tapper Morre.

From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. Nancy is hailed as the "perfect" comic strip by fans and cartoonists alike. The title Three Rocks refers to the trope of three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscape -- just enough to communicate environment to the reader. This distillation is exemplary of the iconic, diagrammatic look of Nancy, a comic strip about the nature of what it means to be a comic strip -- the perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics.

2016 Eisner Award Winner for Best Writer/Artist! Underground and Zippy the Pinhead cartoonist Bill Griffith uncovers his mother's hidden past in his first graphic memoir.