Research Catalog

Title

Cousin Joseph : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.

Author

Feiffer, Jules

Publication

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]

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Details

Description

111 pages : chiefly illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

• Our story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will film only upbeat films that idealize a mythic America: no warts, no injustice uncorrected, only happy endings.
• "Meet Big Sam Hannigan. Tough, righteous, a man on a mission. Only problem is, it's the wrong mission. With the New York Times bestseller Kill My Mother, legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer began an epic saga of American noir fiction. With Cousin Joseph, a prequel that introduces us to bare-knuckled Detective Sam Hannigan, head of the Bay City's Red Squad and patriarch of the Hannigan family featured in Kill My Mother, Feiffer brings us the second installment in this highly anticipated graphic trilogy. Our story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to pay off Hollywood producers to ensure that they will film only upbeat films that idealize a mythic America: no warts, no injustice uncorrected, only happy endings. But Sam, himself, is not in for a happy ending, as step by step the secret of his unseen mentor's duplicity is revealed to him. Fast-moving action, violence, and murder in the noir style of pulps and forties films are melded in the satiric, sociopolitical Feifferian style to dig up the buried fearmongering of the past and expose how closely it matches the headlines, happenings, and violence of today."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Private investigators > Comic books, strips, etc
• Private investigators

Genre/Form

• Noir comics.
• Comic books, strips, etc.
• Graphic novels.
• Comics (Graphic works)

Call Number

JFF 16-1588

ISBN

• 9781631490651
• 1631490656

LCCN

• 2016003857
• 40026238199

OCLC

921868726

Author

Feiffer, Jules, author, illustrator.

Title

Cousin Joseph : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.

Publisher

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2016]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Standard Identifier

40026238199

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1588