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Park bench / Chabouté

by Chabouté, 1967-

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Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Benches -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Parks -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc. -- France.

9781501154027 (pbk.)

Peu de bois et d'acier. English

327 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm

Originally published in France as 'Un Peu de bois et d'acier' by Éditions Glénat, 2012.

Translated from the French.

With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench, in a wordless graphic novel. From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people. Christophe Chabouté's mastery of the visual medium turns this simple object into a thought-provoking and gorgeously wrought meditation on time, desire, and the life of communities all across the planet. This could be a bench in my hometown or yours - the people in this little drama are very much those we already recognize. French graphic artist Christophe Chabouté published his first work, Stories, based on the work of Arthur Rimbaud, in 1993.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels.

Stories without words.

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