Â When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter Â“Pirate Kingâ€ Gabriele

Black Paths

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When the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after World War I, control of the Adriatic port of Fiume (now Rieka, Croatia) was hotly disputed. Enter Â“Pirate Kingâ€ Gabriele dâ€™Annunzio, an Italian poet who stormed the city with 3,000 Italian nationalists. Dâ€™Annunzio declared Fiume a free republic and himself commander. He envisioned a utopian city-state, but Fiume quickly became a surreal center of violence, looting, and decadence, with shades of the Fascist movement to come. Acclaimed comics artist David B. uses this real event as a backdrop and seamlessly weaves history, hysteria, and highly stylized art into the tragic love story of a beautiful torch singer and a young soldier haunted by the horrors of trench warfare.

Praise for Black Paths:

Â“David B. draws with the chaotic, high-contrast style he used in his best-known work, Epileptic, to capture the distressed, surreal mood of artists struggling to run the world.â€ Â—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Â“Expressive, colorful drawings and vivid character designsâ€ Â—Booklist

Â“As with Epileptic, the art inÂ Black Paths is twisted but the writing is straight, charting a clear narrative path through the insanity of Italy in the year following World War IÂ…â€ Â—The A.V. Club

Â“Hereâ€™s a book that has everything going for it.â€ Â—Comic Book Resourceâ€™s Robot6 blog

Â“Black Paths is a fascinating study of the strange convergence of anarchy, fascism and art a century ago.â€Â Â—The Milwaukee Shepherd Express

Country	USA
Brand	Selfmadehero
Manufacturer	SelfMadeHero
Binding	Hardcover
PartNumber	chiefly col. Illustrations
Height	0.8267716527
Length	6.9685039299
Weight	1.13978989454
Width	9.7637795176
ReleaseDate	2013-03-26
NumberOfItems	1

Black Paths

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