Hwy. 115
This road-movie crime story is a masterful debut graphic novel from France.
A road movie featuring two detectives, Rene and Agatha, on the tracks of Robert Illot, a serial killer whose modus operandi is to suffocate his victim with various objects (including chickens and lightbulbs) along the highways and byways of France. As they get closer and closer to catching up with him, seeking out and interrogating men and women from his past life at the insane asylum, he always stays one step ahead and the row of corpses grows longer and longer In this lengthy original graphic novel by Matthias Lehmann (his first, released to great acclaim in his native France earlier this year), dreams and flashbacks converge with the ongoing narrative, done in Lehmann's hypnotically intense and insanely labor-intensive woodcut style to form a dark and disquieting vision of humanity.
A road movie featuring two detectives, Rene and Agatha, on the tracks of Robert Illot, a serial killer whose modus operandi is to suffocate his victim with various objects (including chickens and lightbulbs) along the highways and byways of France. As they get closer and closer to catching up with him, seeking out and interrogating men and women from his past life at the insane asylum, he always stays one step ahead and the row of corpses grows longer and longer In this lengthy original graphic novel by Matthias Lehmann (his first, released to great acclaim in his native France earlier this year), dreams and flashbacks converge with the ongoing narrative, done in Lehmann's hypnotically intense and insanely labor-intensive woodcut style to form a dark and disquieting vision of humanity.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1560977337
ISBN13:9781560977339
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Fantagraphics Books
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.68 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Highway to Hell
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
The strange, cartoony front cover stared out at me from the shelf of the library. I picked it up and had a flick through. Black and white shadowy figures looked out. Grotesque faces and exaggerated bodies. It was a scratchboard book in the style of Thomas Ott and Frans Masereel but seemed cruder, more contemporary. Kinda like Ren and Stimpy done labouriously using scratchboard. Compelling. The book follows two detectives on the trail of a serial killer. The story is one long mental road trip across hellish cities and jungle like countryside, meeting crazier and crazier souls. Though the repetitiveness of the story began to grate a bit (the same pattern kept occurring) I didn't mind. The pictures are so gorgeous to look at and, when you think about the scratchboard technique, it must've taken Lehmann years to achieve this level of detail. It's a great read though. Looks very indie, very different, though produced to a high standard by Fantragraphics with an excellent hardback cover and high quality paper. Very noir, very cool, very good read. Highly recommended.
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