class photo
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Like any good writer, cartoonist Robert Triptow likes to invent stories. When he stumbled across a real-life class photo of an anonymous 1937 public school under a pile of garbage, his imagination took off. Several years later, the result is the utterly charming, completely original graphic novella Class Photo. Using the photo as a springboard, each student’s fictionalized life is depicted in one- page installments. Triptow weaves these imagined lives in and out like so many dedications in a yearbook, mixing in social satire, elegant cartooning, occasionally disgusting hilarity, and plenty of good, clean fun. What began as a self-motivating formal exercise has yielded one of the more whimsically engaging, original, and entertaining graphic books in recent memory. Pages: 64 Colors: black & white Format: Softcover Dimensions: 8 1⁄2” x 11” ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-886-1 Year: 2015TRANSCRIPT
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FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
Robert Triptow with contributions from David Jensen
CLASS PHOTO
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The stories, characters, and the school depicted here are all fictional. The people in the public photograph that inspired Class Photo were real, of course, but must either be dead or, if surviving, no longer resemble those images which inspired me. The Public School 49 in this book is imaginary and has nothing to do with any real school by that name. The building in the photograph no longer exists.
To the best of my knowledge, all the names are my fabrications, with the exception of two. One was the name of a childhood friend; searching for her on the Internet revealed several other women with the same moniker, so I figured it was fair game. Just as we were going to press, I discovered another name belonged to a person (now deceased) in my father’s high school yearbook. This usage was a result of “Eleanor Rigby syndrome.” (The name on a Liverpool headstone that Paul McCartney admits he must have seen and forgotten, yet it lingered in his subconscious memory.)
There’s plenty of offensive material in these pages, but the very rare use of milder labels for minorities or the handicapped are in this book only as a reflection of the times in which the stories are set.
This book is recommended for your bathroom, as each page is about the right reading length per sitting and handy if you run out of tissue.
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Dedicated to John Gadd,the teacher everyone loved,
who became a lifelong friend
and to classmates who made a difference:
Laura TaylorShawn Christensen
Ron Good Shauna Mayne
Cathleen CastilloRichard PhelpsCraig Taylor
Sheila BuckleyScott Cafarelli
Didi HuffCoralie Wilkes
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