Ulteriori informazioni
One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember. A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalised and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age.
With stunning art and an astute eye, 'Suzanne' explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father's ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path ― and to change sport forever.
Info autore
Tom Humberstone is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh. His work has appeared in
Phonogram (Image),
Doctor Who (Titan) and the Eisner award-nominated
Nelson (Blank Slate).
He writes and draws non-fiction comics for the Ignatz award-winning
The Nib, as well as the
New Statesman, Vox, Buzzfeed and others.
Riassunto
A graphic novel biography of pioneering tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen, who changed how we look at the game today.
