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Product details
- ISBN 9781770465626
- Dimensions: 156 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2022
- Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A deeply emotional visual representation of a teenager s confusion. Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug addicted father, Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she battles cancer. Meanwhile he tries to live a typical teen life of pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana s Nevermind as the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the boys realize that their time as children is rapidly disappearing and they may never fully understand each other as they move apart. After his Lynd Ward Prize-winning graphic novel, King of King Court, explored the power that parents hold over their children s emotional lives, Travis Dandro employs his signature dream imagery and crass humour to tell the story of teenage independence and resilience as he prepares to head off to art school. Hummingbird Heart is a detailed and stylish account of a time of great uncertainty. Dandro s densely crafted pages create a deeply emotional experience as his story swings from character confrontation to finely-wrought domestic detail a slapstick cafeteria destroying brawl gives way to the beautifully rendered flight of the impossible hummingbird.
Travis Dandro was born in 1974, in Leicester, Massachusetts. He started publishing his first comic strip, Twerp, in the local newspaper when he was thirteen years old, earning $15 a week. After graduating from Montserrat College of Art in 1996, Dandro continued drawing comics, his work appearing in dozens of college newspapers across the United States and Canada. He also self-published Journal, which was a notable comic in the 2010 and 2012 editions of The Best American Comics. His first book was King of King Court. Dandro lives in Maine with his wife and three sons.
