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Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a Monarch butterfly endures on its annual migration from Canada to Mexico is woven into Ruins This creates a parallel picture of the challenges of survival in our ever changing world Ruins explores the shadows and light of Mexico through its past and present as encountered by an array of characters The real and surreal intermingle to paint an unforgettable portrait of life south of the Rio Grande. Best Download Ruins [ By ] Peter Kuper [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Kuper Under the Mexican SunIt took me a while to get into this one At first, relationship issues between Samantha and George take center stage, and I m afraid I did not much care for those Looking back, that was probably in part because I did not yet much care for Samantha and George.As soon as former photojournalist Alejandro arrives on the scene, however, the story, its characters, and its Mexican setting magically come to life I suddenly started to notice the looseness and softness in Kupe Kuper Under the Mexican SunIt took me a while to get into this one At first, relationship issues between Samantha and George take center stage, and I m afraid I did not much care for those Looking back, that was probably in part because I did not yet much care for Samantha and George.As soon as former photojournalist Alejandro arrives on the scene, however, the story, its characters, and its Mexican setting magically come to life I suddenly started to notice the looseness and softness in Kuper s artistic approach, though those sharp lines and angles he is known for are not completely gone I also started to notice the beautiful palette o...A departure from Kuper s sort of alt art comics style, his most accessible work to date A big, ambitious book, but with softer lines than he usually uses, as he tries to tell a storyabout humans than ideas The story is about a couple traveling to Oaxaca, Mexico for the woman s, Sam s, sabbatical ostensibly so she can write a book She also seems ready to have a baby The guy, George, draws bugs for a living, or did he just lost his job with a NYC museum, maybe the Natural History museum A departure from Kuper s sort of alt art comics style, his most accessible work to date A big, ambitious book, but with softer lines than he usually uses, as he tries to tell a storyabout humans than ideas The story is about a couple traveling to Oaxaca, Mexico for the woman s, Sam s, sabbatical ostensibly so she can write a book She also seems ready to have a baby The guy, George, draws bugs for a living, or did he just lost his job with a NYC museum, maybe the Natural History museum Not clear at all he wants a baby or is ready for it He used to be a painter, and as s...ExemplaryLet this graphic novel speak for itself An American couple takes a sabbatical and a Monarch Butterfly takes wing on its round trip journey from Canada to Mexico The title Ruins is metaphoric in many ways Each reader will come to hi...In the past few years I ve made a conscious effort to getinto graphic novels In that time I ve discovered some real gems, and Ruins is among my favorites It appealed to me because of its environmental theme, but I found so muchto love For one thing, it s a simply gorgeous book, what with the embossed title on the cover and spine, the red edged pages, the built in ribbon bookmark, and the entomological drawings on the endpapers Luckily what s inside is just as special as the packa In the past few years I ve made a conscious effort to getinto graphic novels In that time I ve discovered some real gems, and Ruins is among my favorites It appealed to me because of its environmental theme, but I found so muchto love For one thing, it s a simply gorgeous book, what with the emb...Phenomenal From the insects, to the style, to the politics, to the history, to the setting, to the complex realistic characters, to the relationship Wow Incredible.I really liked this book, even with all of its faults I particularly enjoy the breaking up of the book into parts, and how, with each segment, we see the migratory route of a single monarch butterfly As both Jan and David note, the two main characters are not super likable or interesting, and their relationship struggles don t make sense as the central focus of this big, beautiful book But the book s scope is both large and small And while there are some frustratingly over worn tropes about I really liked this book, even with all of its faults I particularly enjoy the breaking up of the book into parts, and how, with each segment, we see the migratory route of a single monarch butterfly As both Jan and David note, the two main characters are not super likable or interesting, and their relationship struggles don t make sense as the central focus of this big, beautiful book But the book s scope is both large and small And while there are some frustratingly over worn tropes about people from the U.S traveling to Mexico to find their inner self, there is a lot of external, and local to Oaxaca details to offset that activity of projection.George and ...VideorecensioneSamantha and George, are an unhappy married couple, who decide to spend a year in Oaxaca, Mexico They hope to use this time, so Sam can finish a book she is writing and George can rediscover his passion for painting They also hope to mend a broken marriage.Paralleling, this story is the journey of a monarch butterfly, as it migrates, from Canada to Mexico.Wow This was a terrific surprise and will end up being one of the best GNs I have read this year It is well written and it is gorgeously i Samantha and George, are an unhappy married couple, who decide to spend a year in Oaxaca, Mexico They hope to use this time, so Sam can finish a book she is writing and George can rediscover his passion for painting They also hope to mend a broken marriage.Paralleling, this story is the journey of a monarch butterfly, as it migrates, from Canada to Mexico.Wow This was a terrific surprise and will end up being one of the best GNs ...This is a swing and a miss for me Kuper attempts to interweave a lot of ambitious political, ecological, and personal themes, and he misses the mark albeit in an admirable noble failure sort of way Choosing to tell the story of Oaxaca and the 2006 teachers strike massacre through the POV of two insufferable white New Yorkers ...Note A version of this review was published, in German, in the Swiss comics journal STRAPAZIN Peter Kuper is a terribly underappreciated American cartoonist Co founding the radical and influential zine WORLD WAR III in the early 1980 s should have been accomplishment enough to merit wider recognition, but beyond that Kuper has an admirable bibliography adaptations of Franz Kafka, a dozen orcomic books, sketchbooks, collections of syndicated strips and illustrations, and many appearan Note A version of this review was published, in German, in the Swiss comics journal STRAPAZIN Peter Kuper is a terribly underappreciated American cartoonist Co founding the radical and influential zine WORLD WAR III in the early 1980 s should have been accomplishment enough to merit wider recognition, but beyond that Kuper has an admirable bibliography adaptations o...

Ruins
  • English
  • 23 September 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1906838984
  • Peter Kuper
  • Ruins