Oil & Water

Oil & Water

Hardback (20 Oct 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

When 10 environmental workers travel to the Gulf Coast in August 2010 to plumb the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill, they discover that 'oil and water' is just the first of many insoluble contradictions. Between the tarred sands of Grand Isle and the fouled water of the Louisiana bayou, they come to find out that Gulf Coast residents are economically dependent upon the very industry that is wreaking havoc on their environment. In the shadow of the greatest ecological disaster of their time, they are forced to reassess their roles as witness and critic.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606994924
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.73820916364
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 120
Weight: 564g
Height: 248mm
Width: 198mm
Spine width: 16mm