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Baloney: A Tale in 3 Symphonic Acts
| Name: | Baloney: A Tale in 3 Symphonic Acts |
| Alternate Name: | Baloney: A Tale in 3 Symphonic Acts 2008 |
| Year of Release: | 2008 |
| Author: | Various |
| Views: | 1316 |
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Following White Rapids - named Best Comic of 2007 by The Onion - Pascal Blanchet brings us Baloney. Winds swirl and darkness reigns over a hamlet perched atop a craggy peak. Russian fatalism sets the tone as Blanchet orchestrates the tale of a village butcher, his disabled daughter, and her tutor in their doomed uprising against the swaggering Duke Shostakov, local governor and owner of the only heating company in town. In a graphic novel about love and despair that is also a homage to the music of the 1930s and ''40s, double bassists and trombonists lean into the frame, striking up a score that blends vaudeville with Kurt Weill and Russia''s great modern composers. Rendered in two-color, red-and-black chiaroscuro, light struggles to emerge from darkness and endurance makes way for heroism, all to no avail. Read Baloney as a reverie composed to the melodies of Prokofiev and Shostakovich - a beautiful conjuring of moods, or a call to arms against the exorbitant utility rates.
- Issue #TPB 05/18/2021
