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Graphic Literature

A Bomb in the Family

By David B.
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
February 28, 2007
Published in (Worth) Ten Thousand Words: A World Of Graphics
France

First published 1997 as La Bombe Familiale by L’Association. Copyright David B. By arrangement with L’Association. Translation copyright 2007 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

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David B.

David B. is the Eisner Award-nominated artist behind Epileptic, an autobiographical story widely considered a masterpiece of the graphic novel medium.

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Portrait of translator Edward Gauvin
Edward Gauvin

A 2021 Guggenheim fellow, Edward Gauvin has translated in various fields from film to fiction, with a personal focus on contemporary comics (BD) and post-Surrealist literatures of the fantastic.

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