A not-so-classic yarn about a mysterious stranger in a small
midwestern town
It's a story line we know all too well :A
mysterious stranger comes to town. Only the town is not really a town
and the stranger is a gigantic cell-phone tower. The town is
Birdseye Bristoe a portmanteau name created from an interstate
sign that points to two real towns¿and it has only one real permanent
resident, an old-timer known as Uncle. A confirmed bachelor and World
War II veteran, he owns most of the real estate in town.
His teenaged great-niece and -nephew visit occasionally, though
the town doesn¿t have much to offer apart from an adult superstore, a
gas station, and a tackle shop.
Uncle reluctantly agrees to
lease his land to a conglomerate of telecommunications carriers, and
sets the somewhat random condition that the tower be built with a huge
crossbar set horizontally into the mast, making it also the world's
largest cross. Birdseye Bristoe begins with the destruction of
the cell tower and works backward to unravel the story of its fall.
This is the first full-length graphic novel from the
acclaimed artist Dan Zettwoch, who is well known for his comic books
and anthology work (in Kramers Ergot, Beasts II, and the Drawn
& Quarterly 'showcase). Zettwoch has a sharp eye for the
iconography of small-town U'sA, and his stylized prose reveals the
intermingling of a keen wit and a strong affection for his characters.
Birdseye Bristoe brims with larger-than-life
personalities, hilarious anecdotes, references to midwestern/
mid-southern pop culture, and diagrams of the cell-tower/ cross
construction process.
Text in English
Taal / Language : English
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