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Informationen zum Autor Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in the Best American Comics series, the Fantagraphics anthology series NOW, and Mad magazine. His many graphic novels include The Hypo and The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski. He lives with his family in Columbia, SC. Klappentext This graphic novel is based on Lincoln's battle with depression. Zusammenfassung The debut hardcover graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows thetwenty-something Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything! long before become ourmost beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state's legislature ashe arrives in Springfield! IL to pracitice law. With all of his possesions underhis arms in two saddlebags! he is quickly given a place to stay by a womanizingyoung bachelor who becomes his friend and close confidant. Lincoln builds a lifeand begins friendships with the town's top lawyers and politicians. He attendselegant dances and meets an independent-minded young woman from a high-societyKentucky family! and after a brisk courtship! becomes engaged. But! as timepasses and uncertainty creeps in! young Lincoln is forced to battle a dark cloudof depression brought on by a chain of defeats and failures culminating into anervous breakdown that threatens his life and sanity. This cloud of darkdepression Lincoln calls "The Hypo." Dense crosshatching and an attention todetail help bring together this completely original telling of a man driven byan irrepressible desire to pull himself up by his bootstraps! overcome allobstacles! and become the person he strives to be. All the while unknowinglylaying the foundation of character he would use as one of America's greatestpresidents.
